Ambitious Quote by Cory Doctorow

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about…

— Richard Helms

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I…

— Cory Doctorow

The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.

— Jacob Weisberg

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm…

— Jonathan Dee

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

When you write your first book, you're writing in a vacuum; it doesn't matter how much time it takes. And then with the second…

— Sabaa Tahir

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short,…

— Margaret Mahy

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the…

— Paulo Coelho

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something…

— Sarah Pinborough

I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

— Eric Hill

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several…

— William Styron