Beginning Quote by Ann Patchett

How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little by little.…

— Nick Tosches

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

— Shereen El Feki

I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about…

— J. A. Jance

We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what to do.…

— Alison McGhee

I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in another family,…

— Ann Patchett

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on…

— Tom Hodgkinson

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather…

— Elmore Leonard

Writing a book is an adventure.

— Winston Churchill

A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival…

— Janice Y. K. Lee

I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how…

— Eric McCormack

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

— Ann Patchett