Books Quote by Thomas King

“Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.”

— Novalis

“A well-known writer said writing is like getting sick to your stomach. You throw up and clean up afterward.”

— Maija Rhee Devine

“Writers don't need food. Writers can survive on coffee, idea fumes, and trifles. Rich literary trifles.”

— Ksenia Anske

“It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical…

— Sara Sheridan

“Novel writing, I soon discovered, is like channel swimming: a slow and steady stroke over a long distance in a cold, dark sea. If…

— Ann Patchett

“It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my own.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with…

— Sara Sheridan

“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.”

— Alexander Chee

“Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed at.”

— Chris Baty

“Enormous novels by co-eds. Rain down on our defenceless heads. Till our teeth chatter.”

— W.H. Auden

“I can’t speak for other writers, but I write to create something that is better than myself, I think that’s the deepest motivation, and…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard