Book Quote by Monica Ali

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is…

— George R. R. Martin

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

— Jay McInerney

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this moment when…

— Alexandra Fuller

The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are…

— Joe Meno

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

When I started out, I didn't have any writing routine, I had a job. Writing was a hobby I indulged in over the weekends…

— Neal Asher

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There…

— Jeanette Winterson

There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect…

— Alexandra Fuller