Awful Quote by Sarah Dessen

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

— Sarah Dessen

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage…

— Alan Bennett

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been…

— Louise Erdrich

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

— Salman Rushdie

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“After finishing a good book, it was sometimes days before she could shake off that other reality; the one she'd dipped into, leaving the…

— Ann Sutherland

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

— Ian Mcewan

“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover…

— John Fowles