Books Quote by Vikram Seth

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

— Joan Didion

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage…

— A. N. Wilson

Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may…

— John Updike

You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.

— Brit Marling

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the…

— Andrae Crouch

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

— Jacqueline Woodson

I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a…

— Jennifer Egan

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

— Richard Price

It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.

— Michael Lewis

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

— Tana French

“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable and yet…

— Michel Foucault

“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”

— Katherine Mansfield