Bills Quote by Jilly Cooper

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

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

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not…

— Michel Foucault

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so…

— Richard Russo

When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long and it's…

— Linda Sue Park

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

— Dana Spiotta

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

— Alice Hoffman

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 think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

— Margaret Oliphant

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