Book Quote by Gregory Maguire

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not…

— Michael Morpurgo

During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages…

— Patricia Briggs

My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

— Richard Bach

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five…

— Terry Pratchett

I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go…

— Vladimir Nabokov

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I write very slowly.

— Carla Bley

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

— Farley Mowat

I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write…

— Lawrence Block

Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical process of…

— Terry Pratchett