Books Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm…

— Catherine Fisher

I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as…

— Meg Cabot

I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut…

— Larry Winget

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book.

— Rebecca Serle

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

— Jeffery Deaver

Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than,…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical…

— Cory Doctorow

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in that unconscious…

— Laurie Foos

I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.

— Chris Pavone