Books Quote by Neil Gaiman

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel…

— Mark Haddon

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

— Frank McCourt

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe…

— Harlan Coben

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

— Sue Grafton

The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those…

— Walter Mosley

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away…

— Bernard Cornwell

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over…

— Dani Shapiro

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out.…

— Mark Twain

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

You can't start a new chapter of the book if you keep re-reading the last one.

— Anonymous

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

— C. S. Forester