Appearance Quote by Anne Tyler

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at…

— Chang-Rae Lee

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

I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you…

— Orhan Pamuk

I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I…

— Samantha Shannon

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a…

— Clive Cussler

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

— Ford Madox Ford

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.

— Chris Pavone

During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate…

— J. K. Rowling

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg