Amazed Quote by Eoin Colfer

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why…

— Ken Thompson

Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you…

— Grace Paley

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you…

— Claire Messud

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the…

— Jan Karon

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from…

— Karl Popper

The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense…

— Russell Banks

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually…

— Kelley Armstrong

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Each book is a new book. I’ve never written it before and I have to teach myself how to write it as I go…

— Paul Auster

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying…

— Christopher Bollen

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did…

— Robert Caro