Book Quote by Andrew Aydin

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and you know…

— Sergio Chejfec

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for…

— Joanna Scott

Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason I'm a comparatively slow writer, something that has…

— Frank Peretti

My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

— Richard Bach

I was starting to recognize a corner I was driving myself into: that all writing could do was refer to things that had already…

— Vito Acconci

When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the author --…

— Doris Lessing

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

— Walter Mosley

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 a book…

— Ryan North

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a…

— Don Novello

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts,…

— Chevy Stevens