Book Quote by Robert B. Parker

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

— Jon Krakauer

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin…

— Elmore Leonard

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

— Kathy Mattea

What I've done is I've started writing a novel, so that's my big adventure.

— Lesley Sharp

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

— Dylan Moran

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book…

— Herman Koch

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it…

— David McCullough

I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where…

— Deb Caletti

My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things…

— Jami Attenberg

I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are…

— Michael Chabon

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you,…

— James Frey