Author Burnout Quotes

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I don't like the writer I was, or because I find flaws in the writing, but more because I get so burnt out on a novel once I've finished writing, revising, editing and copy editing it that I genuinely never want to look at it again after it's gone to press.

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.