Book Quote by Cynthia Voigt

I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.

— Harmony Korine

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really…

— Tracy Kidder

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because…

— Markus Zusak

There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers…

— Joy Fielding

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to write most…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

— Daniel Woodrell

I've always had ideas for more books than I can write.

— Alastair Reynolds

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start…

— Kami Garcia

“Each book is a new book. I’ve never written it before and I have to teach myself how to write it as I go…

— Paul Auster

I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after…

— John Grisham

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante