Accident Quote by E. L. Doctorow

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

— Elizabeth Berg

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

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

— David Bezmozgis

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

— Tracy Chevalier

Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy writing another…

— Gretchen Rubin

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

— Pablo Picasso

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

— Deb Caletti

When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.

— Robert J. Sawyer

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's…

— Terry Pratchett

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as…

— Aldous Huxley

I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one who made…

— Paul Stanley

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that…

— Lauren Willig