Book Quote by David Morrell

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts,…

— Chevy Stevens

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of…

— Carl Hiaasen

A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is…

— Alberto Manguel

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

— Martellus Bennett

If you are careful about the content and writing style, readers will not feel that you are in a hurry.

— Ravi Subramanian

It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book…

— Sarah Dessen

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I…

— Gracie Allen

The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.

— Josh Lieb

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.

— Jerry Seinfeld

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every…

— Jonathan Franzen

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

— Gregory Maguire