Book Quote by Andrew Sean Greer

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five…

— Terry Pratchett

When I'm working on a book, I try to do eight pages a week. That seems like a good amount. Less than that, I'm…

— Colson Whitehead

I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are…

— Michael Chabon

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

— Douglas Coupland

“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day,…

— John Steinbeck from the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it…

— John Steinbeck

When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is…

— John le Carre

I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the…

— Richelle Mead

Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of…

— Elizabeth Kostova

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm…

— Catherine Fisher

During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it's about two thirds of the way through the book - I'm just comatose on…

— Andrew Sean Greer