Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby
Variant: She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.
Source: This Lullaby
“No novels, since you just read them once and never again.”
— Herta Müller, book The Hunger Angel
Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 7
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German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist 1953Related quotes
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