Book Quote by P. L. Travers

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

— Lois Lowry

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five…

— Terry Pratchett

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of…

— Jesse Ball

“In the American Grain" "Ninth grade, and bicycling the Jersey highways: I am a writer. I was half-wasp already, I changed my shirt and…

— Robert Lowell

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely better looking.

— Chris Claremont

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

— Robert Asprin

'John Henry Days' was already half in the can before my first book came out, so I'd already started something that was big and…

— Colson Whitehead

“I wrote half this book (the left half) while I was asleep, and I wrote the other half (the top half) while daydreaming. So…

— Jarod Kintz

One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.

— David Grann

I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out.…

— Moshe Kasher

Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What…

— Gore Vidal

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with…

— Paul Johnson