Books Quote by Isaac Asimov

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

— Anonymous

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Another mistake is presenting too much background information, and doing so in the first few pages. Writers should begin their stories with the event…

— Evan Marshall

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

— John le Carre

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

— Anne Roiphe

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

— Nicholson Baker

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

— Anonymous

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

— Irwin Shaw

“Mistakes in a work of fiction by a writer are new discoveries by the reader, that create a new ending for the story.”

— kambiz mostofizadeh

Be careful not to judge a book by its cover. What you think the story is and what it really reads, could be two…

— Sarah Moores

If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are pointing out…

— Neil Gaiman