Book Quote by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

— Marguerite Young

Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will not only…

— Jennifer Egan

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have…

— Ian Mcewan

I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.

— Lorrie Moore

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

— V. S. Naipaul

I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because…

— Patrick Modiano

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.…

— V. S. Naipaul

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though…

— Garth Ennis

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I…

— Yann Martel

All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and…

— Zadie Smith

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about…

— Richard Helms

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't…

— Michael Crichton