Book Quote by Ann Beattie

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

— Philip Reeve

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

— Sergio Aragones

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

— Brian Hodge

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

— Erin Morgenstern

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

— Colm Toibin

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

— Fred Saberhagen

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn…

— Jonathan Coe

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

— Paullina Simons

It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which…

— Kate DiCamillo

I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan called for…

— Theodora Goss

You know what? I feel my book is kind of pointless. I didn't want to do a book, but rather than tell the same…

— Al Jourgensen

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

— Robert Sheckley