Blank Quote by John Banville

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I…

— John Larroquette

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

— Erik Larson

Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book…

— Joan Didion

How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little by little.…

— Nick Tosches

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

— Jon Krakauer

I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank…

— Chad Harbach

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

— Alice Hoffman

None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just…

— Peter Ackroyd

I finally get to the place where the book has matured in my mind and I can hardly wait to start writing it. Then…

— Stephen J. Cannell

What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a movie. And…

— Richard LaGravenese

I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank…

— Chad Harbach