Book Quote by James Murray

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

— Catherine Mayer

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really…

— Tracy Kidder

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project.

— Charles Bock

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the…

— George Saunders

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time…

— Kate DiCamillo

One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility…

— Kate Forsyth

I've always had ideas for more books than I can write.

— Alastair Reynolds

Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or,…

— Rebecca Serle

A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet of paper…

— Sasa Stanisic