Book Quote by Rebecca Serle

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time…

— Kate DiCamillo

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

— Catherine Mayer

Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush,…

— Ben H. Winters

One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility…

— Kate Forsyth

I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a…

— Clive Cussler

I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly random drawings…

— David Shrigley

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a…

— John Gardner

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people,…

— Dave Barry

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you…

— Berry Gordy

I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you…

— Orhan Pamuk

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland