“My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.” Quote by Aharon Appelfeld
“When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.” TryingFormUsedNovel Author:Lydia Davis
“I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.” IfsArtKidsCultureBlackTheaterSomewhere ElseHarlem Author:Samuel R. Delany
“The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.” WritingBookProcessErrorsTrialsBook WritingTrial And Error Author:Geoff Dyer
“It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.” WayMotherFightingSentimentsPrimalBeing A MotherSentimentalityAlways Fighting Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.” ShouldImaginationNovelists Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.” MenYearsBookCertainGirlHeroTwelveGood BookThirteenThirteen Year Olds Author:Elena Ferrante
“When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.” WritingWellsMeanAbilityStruggleGrantedGood Writers Author:Jonathan Franzen
“That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know when that has been accomplished.” KnowsShouldHas BeensSaidSentencesHardestThings To DoAccomplishedHardest ThingHardest Thing To Do Author:Vivian Gornick
“I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.” ChildrenGet AwayNaughty Author:Alan Hollinghurst