Always Quote by Paul Stanley

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is…

— George R. R. Martin

My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they…

— Robin McKinley

When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me...…

— Kate DiCamillo

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

People do write books.

— Kevin Pietersen

Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

— Louise Rosenblatt

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at…

— Chang-Rae Lee

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about…

— Adam Braver

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in…

— Rachel Joyce

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

— Isabel Allende

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about…

— Charles Stross