Book Quote by Garth Ennis

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

Most books germinate within you for a long time before they are ready to come out. I wrote several drafts of the novel over…

— Pankaj Mishra

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

— Douglas Coupland

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when…

— Richard Scarry

It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants…

— Elizabeth Berg

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be…

— Don DeLillo

The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of…

— Elizabeth Berg

Books aren't just made of papers, pages and words. They're made of hopes, dreams and possibilities.

— Anonymous

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

— John Gregory Dunne