Books Quote by Richard Russo

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write…

— Luc Ferrari

There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in many discussions…

— Graham Swift

I usually think about titles. I'll hear somebody say something and write it down in my notes, and whenever we go into a room,…

— Kane Brown

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.

— Elvis Costello

“I’m fond of joking that when I get stuck in writing, I’ll kill a character or blow something up (in the novel…usually).”

— Beth Revis

“I concede that a bad romantic novel is embarrassing and indefensible. So is a bad so-called realistic novel. (And it is usually pretentious into…

— Mary Burchell

I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder…

— Giada De Laurentiis

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

— Rose Tremain

When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four,…

— Stephen Graham Jones

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

— Ruth Ozeki

I just write notes all day on my phone, and when I write songs it becomes a patchwork of these smaller notes that I…

— Aesop Rock

“What did we ever do before text messaging?' Vi asked... Write notes to each other. On paper' Seems positively archaic now.' Pretty soon we'll…

— Paul Ruditis