Books Quote by Joe Hill

“And it's not that I'm a good writer. I found good characters. They tell me what to write, and thank God for that because…

— M.L. Gardner

“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all at once.…

— Nathan Bransford

“I knew I must write a novel. But it seemed an impossible thing to do when I had been trying with great difficulty to…

— Hemingway Ernest

“Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene.”

— Philip Gerard

“To cut a long story short, I'm a writer.”

— Amaya Ellman

“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more…

— Haruki Murakami

“time. Take a lot of it at the beginning of the writing process. I’m not talking about hours or even days. I’m talking about…

— John Truby

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose. ”

— Will Blythe

“If you're writing a story and YOU can't wait to see how it all pans out, then you are doing something right.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.”

— Thomas Harris

“You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again.”

— Scott William Carter