Books Quote by Richard Ford

If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.

— Pam Shriver

“Give me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines.”

— Joseph Kennedy

“If this were a novel, you'd have to start a new chapter as soon as I appeared.”

— Jasper Fforde

I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which, although incomplete,…

— Ned Beauman

“The beginning of a novel: start a subject, no matter where, and to have the desire to finish, start with very beautiful phrases.”

— Charles Baudelaire

This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations,…

— Walter Mosley

Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then they just…

— Gary Shteyngart

I actually really do meditation and then I spend my morning reading.

— Jen Kirkman

I love turning on the computer in the morning and reading the things that I did the day before - that I didn't do!

— Peyton Reed

“If you haven't stayed up until the early hours of the morning reading with your eyes itching and burning with tiredness and your vision…

— Sinnerlikedamon

By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to…

— Brandon Sanderson

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their…

— Brandon Sanderson