Always Quote by Peter Carey

I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

— James Purefoy

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

— James Purefoy

When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the author --…

— Doris Lessing

I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into…

— Zoe Foster Blake

I have an obsession with details and pattern.

— Alice Temperley

In terms of why everything is different, each book is different than the one before because I'm so bored of what I just finished…

— Colson Whitehead

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I…

— Paul Auster

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

— Howard Jacobson

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

— John Lanchester

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

— Lauren Myracle

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a…

— Steven Johnson

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

— Maxwell Perkins