About Quote by Colm Toibin

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it…

— Bernard Malamud

I learned to write from different points of view and not just something I would say.

— Maren Morris

It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's important to…

— William T. Vollmann

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

— Sarah Dessen

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

I used to teach at the Columbia journalism school, and I would tell my students that every book has to have a sentence that…

— Alissa Quart

“In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there…

— Ernest Hemingway

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

— Elizabeth Berg

“It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught.”

— Parnell Hall

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though…

— Max Roach

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov

“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all at once.…

— Nathan Bransford