Book Quote by John Irving

After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely, usually in…

— Adam Rex

I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly random drawings…

— David Shrigley

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like a film…

— Ruskin Bond

Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.

— Gerard Way

Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself…

— Rebecca Miller

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light.…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually…

— Amanda Hocking

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten…

— Joan Didion

I just like to express myself in the world around me. And I love writing, but sometimes it feels a little too minute. Sometimes,…

— Andrea Gabriel

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of…

— Bill Viola

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside…

— Marc Guggenheim