Books Quote by Richard Ford

Reading English novels I always adore the ability to write without fear about inner psychological things that are so delicate.

— Olga Tokarczuk

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

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our…

— Erica Jong

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

— H. L. Mencken

I think of my novels as entertainments.

— Anonymous

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.

— W. G. Sebald

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey

Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster

I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make…

— William Brinkley

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical…

— Cory Doctorow