Book Quote by Chevy Stevens

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have…

— Dinaw Mengestu

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five…

— Terry Pratchett

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels,…

— Ron Rash

I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I Lay Dying,'…

— Amy Bloom

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader…

— Susan Cheever

I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a character or…

— Sarah Dessen

Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to…

— Janet Evanovich

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the…

— John Irving

Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical process of…

— Terry Pratchett

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in…

— Robert Boswell

Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as…

— Sarah Dessen