Baby Quote by Salman Rushdie

Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything…

— Harry Crews

“Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.”

— Norman Mailer

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

— Anonymous

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while…

— Dean Koontz

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

— Joel Dicker

“The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.”

— David Mitchell

Writing a novel is agony.

— George Orwell

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you…

— Greg Rucka

People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap in the…

— Colson Whitehead

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

— Charles Bukowski