Block Quote by Charles Stross

Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick of myself.…

— Sarah Dessen

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so…

— Richard Russo

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly,…

— Margaret Atwood

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every…

— Patrick Modiano

When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you…

— Claire Messud

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

— James Thayer

I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring…

— Debra Dean

You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous…

— Jack Kerouac

But the Fear (that sensation that all writers get of how the hell do words get from my puny little brain to into a…

— Paul Cornell

“I write well-fleshed out characters, and inevitably, more ideas spring from my subconscious. They all have a little bit of me in them. It’s…

— Faye Kellerman

Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you…

— Grace Paley