Accounts Quote by V. S. Naipaul

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

— Olivia Munn

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

— Ann Brashares

One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page…

— John Irving

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

— Gillian Flynn

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

— Steven Saylor

“People who write novels only write them when they have very little else to write”

— David Markson

You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist,…

— Irvine Welsh

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others,…

— Rebecca Solnit

You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in…

— David Foster Wallace

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg