I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you… — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I say to people, 'Do you have any idea how hard it is to do that, to write 7,000 words in 10… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need… — Nathaniel Rich Copy Share Image
And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
If you're on a contract at 'The New Yorker,' the contract specifies the number of words you will publish in the magazine… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Read this first volume and you'll want to finish the next two--300,000 words in total--with the first 90,000 setting the stage for… — Frank Audrain Copy Share Image
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You need to know a little about a lot to write a book. The amount of research that goes into it- it's… — James Murray Copy Share Image
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When I think about the books I've written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,000 page book. Highlighting something and… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book.… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
