Books Quote by Patricia Duncker

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

— Sarah Dessen

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

— Asa Larsson

“Writers live with fear. Some writers cannot deal with the fear, and so they quit or refuse to publish. In order to write, you…

— Patrick Mcmanus

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 knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or…

— Samantha Shannon

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

— Sarah Dessen

Writing a novel is agony.

— George Orwell

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

— Daniel Handler

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

— Anita Brookner

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

— Kim Edwards

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

— Susan Sontag

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

— Don Roff