Am Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times…

— Peter Carey

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

— Laverne Cox

If you were to write our next chapter, I wonder how you would begin it, because no matter how many pages I turn I'm…

— Anonymous

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

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

— Mark Twain

I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of my novel.'…

— Susan Minot

Writing is so hard… The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you…

— Sophy Burnham

The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first…

— George Stephen

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

— Asa Larsson

Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chapter a day' and they can't.…

— Cassandra Clare

The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut.

— Aprilynne Pike

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of…

— Elizabeth Kostova