Book Quote by Donna Tartt

Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series of novels…

— Daniel Handler

I think life would be a lot easier if people were able to stand in their mistakes and not backtrack. If you did something…

— Jessie Reyez

With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then I settle…

— Michael Morpurgo

I stand by every mistake I've ever made, so judge away.

— Kristen Stewart

Always, at the end of every book, there are things you will be unsatisfied with, and still more things that later on you will…

— Maggie O'Farrell

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story…

— Leslie Jamison

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing…

— Neil Gaiman

As an author, one of the most important things I think you can do once you've written a novel is step back. When the…

— Madeline Miller

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you…

— Michael Korda

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing,…

— Peter Straub

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

— Enrique Iglesias

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.

— Daniel Kahneman