About Quote by Douglas Kennedy

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

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too…

— David Shields

The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.

— Michael Angelakos

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new…

— Haruki Murakami

Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every…

— Patrick Modiano

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

— Nick Hornby

There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I…

— Alice Munro

Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my…

— Christopher Rice

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

When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone,…

— Philipp Meyer

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

— Elizabeth Berg

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in…

— Paul Auster