Book Quote by Betsy Byars

Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book, and I still…

— Eve Bunting

The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.

— John Scalzi

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking…

— Rick Yancey

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single…

— Sylvia Day

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

— Nelson DeMille

I like to have a title before I start writing.

— Sue Monk Kidd

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

“To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls…

— Judy Blume

I normally take a long time finding titles. I finish the book and go into sweats for months afterwards trying to think of them.

— Howard Jacobson

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

— Kathy Acker