Book Quote by Michael Dirda

Maybe my work is somewhat divided into family stories, things I know intimately, and then everybody else in the world - the strangers who…

— Peter Orner

I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.

— Sarah Dessen

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

— Paul Auster

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

— Lucian Freud

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research…

— Caroline Kennedy

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

— Ann Patchett

When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a…

— Jon Katz

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much…

— Agnes Varda

There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in…

— Michelle Tea

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

— Les Parrott