Books Quote by Richard Dooling

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

— Annie Dillard

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

— D. H. Lawrence

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to…

— Annie Dillard

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

— Patricia Duncker

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

— Wally Lamb

I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's…

— Arundhati Roy

The word of God is my vow.

— Pittacus Lore

Fiction novels, that's my game.

— David Benioff

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

— Haruki Murakami

Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea…

— Flannery O'Connor

If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes…

— Julien Green