Author's Feelings Quotes

I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself.

I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews.

Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.

'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

I was lucky: I feel like I've written four books that mean something to me, and one book that means everything to me, and that's 'The Book Thief.'

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.

You love each book. They're your children.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

I'm always a bit disappointed when I've finished working on a book.

'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said what I wanted. I think it must be different for every author; I haven't done very much of it, and perhaps, in a way, I found it rather painful, which is why I don't really do it very often.

The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.

As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."