Book Quote by Carol Anshaw

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

I write linearly without knowing the full story. I discover it as I write it.

— Gautham Menon

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the…

— George Saunders

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

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your…

— Dan Barden

For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

— Lisa Jewell

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.

— Nathan Englander

My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

— Richard Bach

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

— Laverne Cox

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

— Catherine Mayer