About Quote by Lynda Barry

“Don't mention your move before you make a move.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.”

— Jay Taylor

Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't…

— Tom Peters

Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort…

— Dan Poynter

With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of,…

— Daniel H. Pink

When you write your first book, you're writing in a vacuum; it doesn't matter how much time it takes. And then with the second…

— Sabaa Tahir

“People who make snide comments to authors like "anyone can write a book" or "well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can't be…

— Michelle M. Pillow

There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting…

— Ira Glass

“A series of different questions must be raised when trying to understand a story. A sampling of those questions might be the following: Who…

— Haddon W. Robinson

I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what…

— Caroline Leavitt

“Too often we sit back and speak platitudes of the nitty-gritty bits of writing; the editing, the story structure, the verbal sparring vs. banter,…

— Rachel Heffington

I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if…

— Nicholas Sparks