Ahead Quote by Elizabeth Berg

Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful…

— Lily King

Each book requires a different look. Sometimes I get to take a personal direction that's appropriate for the story. I try to push things…

— Cliff Chiang

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

— Cassandra Clare

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

— V. S. Naipaul

I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

— Jeff VanderMeer

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out…

— Erin Morgenstern

Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say…

— Kathryn Erskine

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in…

— Rachel Joyce

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

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and…

— Zadie Smith

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel…

— Ernest Hemingway