Books Quote by Julie Klassen

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about…

— Charles Stross

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting.…

— Lalla Ward

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

— Patricia Briggs

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

— James Thayer

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

— David Mitchell

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

— Dani Shapiro

Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.

— Martin Amis

Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from page to…

— Suzanne Collins

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

— Khaled Hosseini