About Quote by Min Jin Lee

My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when…

— Salman Rushdie

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

— Dirk Benedict

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though…

— Richard Hell

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote…

— Julia Cameron

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing,…

— Peter Straub

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

— Joyce Cary

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

— Anonymous

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find…

— Robert Penn Warren