Assembling Quote by Scott Bradfield

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

— Alice Walker

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes…

— Ian Mcewan

I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different…

— Jennifer Egan

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

E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to find new…

— Nick Earls

I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format…

— Jackie French

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

— V. S. Naipaul

I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well.

— Sarah Monette

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to…

— Lev Grossman

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers…

— Amish Tripathi

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

— Sally Rooney

I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and I would…

— Lucie Brock-Broido