Books Quote by Steven Saylor

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

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have…

— Kate Christensen

Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word.…

— Jonathan Tropper

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

— Jonathan Dee

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your…

— Sheila Heti

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to…

— Kanye West

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your…

— Bret Easton Ellis