Books Quote by Gustave Flaubert

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for…

— Joanna Scott

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without…

— Jack Kerouac

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

— Jeffery Deaver

When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.

— Frederick Busch

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm…

— Catherine Fisher

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

— Sue Grafton

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something…

— Gregory Maguire

Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get…

— Iain Banks

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just…

— Candace Bushnell

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