Books Quote by Emma Healey

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

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

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to…

— Terry Pratchett

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

Yeah I was aware of the book, but hadn't read it. So as soon as I'd finished the script, I got a copy of…

— Eric Bana

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her…

— Ian Mcewan

She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and…

— Karen Marie Moning

I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots so by…

— Stephen Dobyns

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

— Kurt Vonnegut