Books Quote by John Irving

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin…

— Elmore Leonard

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel…

— Jonathan Trigell

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

— Claire Tomalin

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

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

For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other novels waiting…

— John Irving

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

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

— Patricia Briggs

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

— George Pelecanos

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

Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you…

— Grace Paley

I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to…

— Scott Spencer