Busy Quote by William Faulkner

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

— Dean Koontz

“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as…

— William Hurrell Mallock

I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it.…

— Nadine Gordimer

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my…

— Barnett Newman

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I…

— Donald Miller

“Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don't know if people like it or if they are actually reading any…

— Andrew James Pritchard

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

— Markus Zusak

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I…

— Katherine Waterston

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish…

— Ruskin Bond

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write,…

— Alan Bennett

My two bits here are that writing is a solitary job but there are times when one needs to discuss the work, and see…

— Sriram Raghavan

I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary project, I'm…

— Anonymous