Book Quote by James Patterson

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate…

— Louise Jameson

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the…

— Stephen King

Typically, I have a fairly good grip on the plot of a suspense novel before I set about writing it. I must know beforehand…

— Sandra Brown

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he…

— Nicole Krauss

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going…

— Stephen King

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

— Patrick Ness

Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists…

— George R. R. Martin

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already…

— Anita Desai

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm…

— Catherine Fisher

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes…

— Dana Spiotta

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

— Cassandra Clare

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards