Been Quote by Siri Hustvedt

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they…

— Alexander McCall Smith

How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who have been…

— Sara Sheridan

Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

— Aravind Adiga

I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this life of…

— Peter Handke

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in…

— Vikas Swarup

I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you…

— Ian Mcewan

I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

— Gail Carriger

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of…

— Francoise Sagan

A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way,…

— Walter Pater

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

— Marco Roth