When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing…

“He had finished and collected the three years of drafts [of Infinite Jest] , and finally sat down and typed the whole thing. Wallace…

— David Lipsky

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

— Jo Nesbo

“I started the first drafts of the book during my sophomore year of college. I wasn’t thinking at all about kids at the time.…

— Caleb J. Ross

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real…

— Megan Chance

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't…

— Daniel H. Pink

I think of my success as a kind of fluke. How else could I possibly think of it? And although it's a banal thing…

— Ayana Mathis

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

— Josh Lieb

“The writer is always working on a book, even when not writing.”

— Antonio Callado

“Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.”

— Amit Kalantri

“One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure…

— Virgil Suarez

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

— Amit Kalantri

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

— Amit Kalantri