Anything Quote by Tom Robbins

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

— Jean Rostand

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of…

— Michel Faber

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

— Bernard Malamud

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Can a writer forget something that he’s written in one of his own books? Yes, of course.”

— Sherman Alexie

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether…

— Jose Saramago

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong…

— China Mieville

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

— Claire Tomalin

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

— William Golding