Actually Quote by Sela Ward

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

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

— Ann Brashares

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing,…

— Peter Straub

The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense…

— Russell Banks

There are definitely some folks in my hometown who are unhappy with the way I portrayed my hometown... But I think most folks realize…

— J. D. Vance

The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.

— Zadie Smith

It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want…

— Dan Brown

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

— Philip Roth

Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has…

— Garth Greenwell

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

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important…

— Lawrence Osborne

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

— Larry Hagman