Book Quote by Kate DiCamillo

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

— Jeanette Winterson

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book…

— China Mieville

“[…]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform…

— Mohsin Hamid

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash…

— Robert Crais

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words…

— Anonymous

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

— Rachel Kushner

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky…

— Jasper Fforde

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.

— Will Hobbs

In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems…

— Sally Lloyd-Jones

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

— Danielle Steel

I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound…

— Paul Lisicky

Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.

— Pen Densham