Book Quote by Annie Dillard

“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time.…

— Annie Dillard

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every…

— Annie Dillard

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais

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

“Writing your book is not the end all of your strategy. It is a powerful catalyst that will push you to the top of…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out.…

— Mark Twain

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got…

— Mark Haddon

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

— Anne Tyler

In the course of writing a book I'll produce loads of pieces of paper to help the novel itself. Diagrams, charts, family trees. And…

— Maggie O'Farrell

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over…

— Dani Shapiro

Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth…

— Richard North Patterson

Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do…

— Stephen King