Book Quote by Howard Jacobson

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over…

— Dani Shapiro

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

— John Gregory Dunne

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set…

— Irvine Welsh

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has…

— Terry Pratchett

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

— Julian Barnes

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

— Alan Lightman

For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

— Lisa Jewell

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

— Nicole Krauss

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

— John Piper

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

— David Bezmozgis

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

— Anonymous