Books Quote by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

— Diablo Cody

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

— Marge Piercy

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

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

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

— Meg Wolitzer

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

— Gillian Flynn

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best…

— Willow Smith