Book Quote by Cliff Chiang

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own…

— Joe Abercrombie

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

I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions…

— George Saunders

When I'm writing for a book, it's much more reflective process. I have certain things that may not translate well to the stage, but,…

— Paul Reiser

No matter how beautiful the paper, artwork, printing, and binding, I'm seldom drawn to a book unless it's by a writer I care about…

— Michael Dirda

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of…

— Raymond Chandler

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

— Jesse Ball

With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I need to…

— Nathan Englander

Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or,…

— Rebecca Serle

A novel is 400 pages; it's an endurance race. There's no artist, so I have to describe everything. It's all prose. Whereas with comics,…

— Marjorie Liu

“It perplexes me how many people write books where everyone comes from the same basic set of backgrounds—middle class, white, straight, etc. It's like…

— Scott Westerfeld

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