Books Quote by Robert Harris

Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother…

— Amos Oz

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the…

— Anne Rice

I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ...

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

— Howard Gordon

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best…

— Karl Kraus

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made…

— Ahmet Zappa

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks…

— Flannery O'Connor

None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the…

— Nicole Krauss

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get…

— Anne Lamott

If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.

— Fran Lebowitz