Ambience Quote by Kate Atkinson

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

I like to say that I always have a whole book in front of me. I write down the major beats, the major action…

— Leigh Bardugo

I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.

— Harmony Korine

“It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn't and…

— Khaled Hosseini

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually…

— Robert B. Parker

“Even when you do nothing, you are doing something. Be aware of your decisions and what they mean for the book you are designing.…

— Armand Mevis

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

— William Gibson

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

I'm not writing necessarily for an audience. I think about the audience at the end, once I have a complete book. But, when I'm…

— Crystal Hana Kim

I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are…

— Michael Chabon

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin…

— Elmore Leonard