Books Quote by Dan Chaon

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

When I write, it's like watching a movie in my head.

— Simone Elkeles

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so…

— Richard Russo

I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you…

— Orhan Pamuk

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about…

— Charles Stross

I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that…

— Jennifer Egan

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's…

— Stephen Graham Jones

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to…

— Mohsin Hamid

If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong turns. You…

— Soman Chainani

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down…

— Anthony Horowitz