Chapters Quote by Mark Twain

Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get…

— Iain Banks

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chapter a day' and they can't.…

— Cassandra Clare

If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times…

— Peter Carey

There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does…

— E. B. White

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every…

— Irvine Welsh

The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.

— Olga Tokarczuk

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

— Joss Whedon

You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too…

— Gore Vidal

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.

— William Golding

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without…

— Jack Kerouac