Books Quote by Patricia Briggs

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

— Gregory Maguire

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of…

— Leni Zumas

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds…

— Christopher Bollen

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every…

— Jonathan Franzen

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

— Margaret Haddix

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

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

— Megan Chance

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

— Anne Lamott