Because Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a…

— Wilbur Smith

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that…

— John Ruskin

In college, I'd gone abroad to get away from a campus where I felt I didn't fit in. And I started writing fiction, at…

— Kim Brooks

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and…

— Common

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived…

— Rachel Cusk

Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the…

— Nicole Krauss

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

— D. H. Lawrence

The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs…

— Sandra Cisneros