Attainment Quote by Ernest Hemingway

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always…

— Ernest Hemingway

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over…

— Dani Shapiro

“A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.”

— Mark Rubinstein

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no…

— Cyril Connolly

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have…

— Ian Mcewan

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais

“To write a book is to suspend the present and create a new reality.”

— Susan Dudics-Dean aka Suzanne Quill

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel…

— Stephenie Meyer

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

— Daniel Woodrell

A novel means a new way of doing a story

— Romesh Gunesekera

Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no…

— Samuel Johnson