Books Quote by Alice Mattison

I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.

— Sarah Dessen

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or…

— Robert Cormier

When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story…

— Michael Ondaatje

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

— Raymond Carver

I don't have secrets, my life's an open book.

— John Cooper Clarke

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

— Markus Zusak

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

— Ann Beattie

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

— James Herbert

In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can…

— Jesse Andrews

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

— Kim Edwards

All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel,…

— Lisa Gardner

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

— Sarah Dessen