About Quote by Susan Straight

I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

— Judy Blume

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

— Dean Koontz

Novels are a safe way to talk about things.

— Jay Asher

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

— Iain Banks

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

— Ruth Ozeki

I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.

— Julie Foudy

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

— Katherine Dunn

Listening to people discussing a novel can be very interesting, if you've read whatever novel is being discussed. No one, it seems, ever says,…

— Zia Haider Rahman

I love to read stories. And I don't to get to talk about my favorite novels very often in my job.

— Hope Jahren

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

— James Salter

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

— Dorothy Allison