Accumulate Quote by Susan Shreve

Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.

— Jonathan Kellerman

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

— Alexander Chee

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived…

— Amanda Plummer

I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I've published several virtually invisible novels and several dozen even more invisible short stories over the years, all of which give me joy -…

— Scott Bradfield

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

— John Berger

I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my…

— George Orwell

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

— Noah Hawley

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

— William H. Gass

I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying…

— Daniel Tammet

I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person.

— Randhir Kapoor

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

— Ann Brashares