Book Quote by John Sandford

Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

— Chris Pavone

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

— Tony Hillerman

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

— Cassandra Clare

When you have good writing, the rhythm of the scene is very apparent. What the scene demands is very clear.

— Carrie Coon

For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is…

— Loretta Devine

About writing I learned that always, always, always it's necessary to haunt your settings. I'm a big researcher. All my fiction is based on…

— Lucy Jane Bledsoe

At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend this approach…

— Liza Campbell

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite…

— Bruce Springsteen

I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.

— Benjamin Avila

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

— Patrick Ness