Body Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

— Charles Stross

It's more like I write multiple first drafts, handwritten. So with my first novel, I wrote whole drafts from different points of view. There…

— Lauren Groff

People do write books.

— Kevin Pietersen

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form…

— Margaret Mahy

I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from…

— Lauren Oliver

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

— Howard Jacobson

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

— Janet Burroway

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.

— Jeanette Winterson

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory…

— Bernard Cornwell

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

— Jay Asher

Detailed analytical indexing is generally the hallmark of good back-of-the-book indexes.

— Hans H Wellisch

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson