The writer after all is only half the book, the other half…

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

— P. L. Travers

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five…

— Terry Pratchett

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of…

— Jesse Ball

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

— Robert Asprin

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely better looking.

— Chris Claremont

“In the American Grain" "Ninth grade, and bicycling the Jersey highways: I am a writer. I was half-wasp already, I changed my shirt and…

— Robert Lowell

'John Henry Days' was already half in the can before my first book came out, so I'd already started something that was big and…

— Colson Whitehead

I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out.…

— Moshe Kasher

One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.

— David Grann

“I wrote half this book (the left half) while I was asleep, and I wrote the other half (the top half) while daydreaming. So…

— Jarod Kintz

“Manage me, I'm a mess Turn a page, I'm a book Half unread”

— All Time Low

I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it,…

— Karl Pilkington

My publicist actually told me about the book. She's half-Indian, half-Dutch, and she was like, 'You've got to do this book. It's called 'Crazy…

— Jimmy O. Yang

Book is a half of a clapping hand and the reader is the other half of it. :))

— Reader's Digest

“… if necessary, the books shall be divided as follows: you get the odd, I get the even pages; "the books" are understood to…

— Vera Pavlova