Break Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether…

— Rose Tremain

When someones part in your story is over, turn the page. Don't try to stretch the chapter into a book.

— Ritu Ghatourey

It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or…

— George R. R. Martin

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all…

— Andrew Sean Greer

One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people…

— Thomas Cahill

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

I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he…

— Anonymous

When you have so much history with someone you just can't close the book , you have too rip that page out and keep writing.

— Anonymous

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or…

— Joan Didion

I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which I follow…

— Megan Chance

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

— Megan Chance