When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you... →
E. L. Doctorow
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was... →
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because... →
I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book.... →
But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going... →
Anthony Doerr
My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls in France.... →
Lou Doillon
Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A... →
I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something... →
Andrew Dominik