Books Quote by Haruki Murakami

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler

The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson…

— Lydia Davis

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white…

— Richard Meltzer

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into…

— Zoe Foster Blake

I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right…

— Julian Barnes

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader…

— Susan Cheever

As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.

— Kola Boof

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of different books.…

— Stephen King

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're…

— Norman Mailer