Am Quote by Chris Van Allsburg

I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.

— Lloyd Alexander

At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions,…

— Alberto Manguel

All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing gets much faster and easier because…

— Diana Gabaldon

The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of…

— Elizabeth Berg

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be…

— Don DeLillo

Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer.

— Mark Twain

The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's…

— Chad Harbach

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some…

— Don Novello

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though…

— Garth Ennis

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

— Sergei Dovlatov

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

— Cassandra Clare

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley