Books Quote by Michael Connelly

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

— Michael Connelly

“You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.”

— Tom Winton

“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

“I have had so many spectacular failures, but looking back, I can see how each of them led me a little closer to doing…

— Timothy Ferriss

“A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest.…

— Anonymous

“I tried to write a coming of age novel, but I wasn't deep enough to get past the third chapter.”

— Rick Robinson

“I would never re-write you. You are by far my most complete and greatest novel.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on…

— Beth Revis

“Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.”

— Mercedes M. Yardley

“I don't care if only a handful of people read my books, the stories must be told. I will never give up writing”

— Christy Sloat

“Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between twenty and…

— Gabriel García Márquez