Book Quote by Philip Roth

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

— Philip Roth

When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you…

— Claire Messud

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

Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick of myself.…

— Sarah Dessen

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

— Charles Stross

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually…

— Kelley Armstrong

Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that in some…

— Lucy Corin

Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the…

— Sue Grafton

The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this moment when…

— Alexandra Fuller

I had wanted to be a writer for a very long time, and I had started a lot of books and failed to finish…

— Leigh Bardugo