Book Quote by Salman Rushdie

“When I write, I go to live inside the book. By which I mean, mentally I can experience everything I’m writing about. I can…

— Tanith Lee

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced…

— Johnny Vegas

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is…

— George R. R. Martin

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at…

— Maria Semple

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that…

— J. P. Donleavy

There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in…

— Michelle Tea

When I write novels, it's just me alone in a room.

— Rebecca Serle

When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really…

— Donald Miller