Books Quote by Piers Paul Read

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

— Michael Crichton

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

— Phyllis A. Whitney

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

— Aldous Huxley

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There are many things behind a…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is…

— Norman Mailer

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost…

— Mohsin Hamid

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you…

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

— Robert Graves

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

— Roald Dahl

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.

— Jonathan Franzen

Good writing is rewriting.

— Truman Capote