Books Quote by Patricia Hickman

“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.”

— Francois Mauriac

“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all at once.…

— Nathan Bransford

“When I started writing every day, I realized a painful truth: I can’t react and create at the same time. Neither can you.”

— Jeff Goins

“No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.”

— Neil Gaiman

“One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.”

— Adam Langer

“For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you’re the only writer in existence; the only…

— Martin Cosgrove

“Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“I don't know whether I could do either one, reading or writing, without the other”

— Eudora Welty

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“Novels are written—as life is lived—One Day At A Time.”

— Lawrence Block