Being the best Quote by Roald Dahl

“When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things, and you get the…

— Roald Dahl

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this moment when…

— Alexandra Fuller

There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change in six…

— David McCullough

When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you line them…

— Terry Pratchett

Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks…

— Carolyn Wheat

To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on my bedroom…

— Erik Larson

There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect…

— Alexandra Fuller

A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is…

— Alberto Manguel

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

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going…

— Daniel Kehlmann