Books Quote by Umberto Eco

Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little frightening to…

— Garth Greenwell

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

— M. Night Shyamalan

I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of fiction.

— Steven Berkoff

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The…

— Oscar Wilde

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

— Roxane Gay

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't…

— Jim Woodring

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is…

— Gillian Cross

Fiction is my deepest love, but I love journalism, too. It keeps me thinking vigorously, and it reminds me that there is a world…

— Jennifer Egan

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to.…

— Louise Erdrich

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

— Don Roff

Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing,…

— Lauren Beukes