Chapters Quote by John le Carre

I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all…

— Andrew Sean Greer

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five…

— Terry Pratchett

When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not…

— Michael Morpurgo

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts,…

— Chevy Stevens

Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chapter a day' and they can't.…

— Cassandra Clare

Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to…

— Janet Evanovich

Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you…

— Sophy Burnham

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more…

— Charles Frazier

The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems…

— Tom Stoppard

I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.

— Michael Connelly

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the…

— John Irving

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page…

— James Rollins