Book Quote by Wole Soyinka

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

— Edward Carpenter

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life,…

— Paullina Simons

I had wanted to be a writer for a very long time, and I had started a lot of books and failed to finish…

— Leigh Bardugo

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

— Mary Garden

When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to…

— Karan Mahajan

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but…

— Charles Dickens

My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became a heavy…

— Orhan Pamuk

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot…

— Scarface