Book Quote by Jane Jacobs

Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that in some…

— Lucy Corin

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of…

— Joseph Wambaugh

I'm not prolific, I go over stuff and it goes for me and sometimes against me. I'm annoyed that I don't do enough stuff…

— Ben Howard

When I get into the moment of actually feeling like I want to write, to finish something, I do what I've always read authors…

— Ted Leo

I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office…

— Jess Walter

The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one of them.…

— Miranda July

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad…

— Thomas L. Dumm

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

— Garth Ennis

When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you…

— Claire Messud

I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.

— Blake Butler

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go…

— Salman Rushdie

What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes…

— Ron Rash