Chapter Quote by Joyce Rachelle

“I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.”

— Anonymous

“I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.”

— Darcey Steinke

“On the night of the murder I was at home, asleep. The characters in my dream can vouch for me.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Careful, or you'll end up in novel.”

— Anonymous

“You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.”

— Robert Galbraith

“If this were a novel, you'd have to start a new chapter as soon as I appeared.”

— Jasper Fforde

“What are you thinking about?" "Whether they'll write my life story as a tragedy or an epic fantasy.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Nothing more exhilarating (he wrote) than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”

— Junot Díaz

“I was in the midst of narrating a wicked chapter where the heroine is tied up and blindfolded, when it finally happened.”

— Genna Rulon

“It was like my life hung on the chapters of a novel - and each scene ended in a cliffhanger.”

— Phaedra Weldon

“when I am writing a book, I’ll go to sleep with a plot hole in my story that I don’t know how to fix.…

— Tarryn Fisher

“I spent the rest of my day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned…

— Amy Plum