Books Quote by Howard Jacobson

Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book, and I still…

— Eve Bunting

I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

— Mary Wesley

I have a hard time recalling the titles of books.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.

— Jason Jones

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

— Michael Helm

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

— Martin Mull

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

— Jeffery Deaver

I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.

— Harmony Korine

I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my chapter length…

— Peter Carey

Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see…

— John Irving

And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very beginning and…

— Edward Hirsch

I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do…

— Jan Brett