Books Quote by Garth Nix

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have…

— Dinaw Mengestu

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening…

— John Scalzi

I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the characters, and I know what they…

— Amor Towles

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

— Bill Bryson

I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the…

— George R. R. Martin

If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

— James Patterson

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn…

— Jonathan Coe

My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.

— Brandon Sanderson

Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's…

— Leslie Jamison

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I…

— Miranda July