Books Quote by Robert Cormier

“When I have a chapter finished, I jot down who the viewpoint characters are, what they are wearing, what happened in the chapter. So…

— Dean Wesley Smith

After I finish writing a chapter, I'll print it out, cut it up into paragraphs, and cut away any transition sentences. Then I shuffle…

— Erik Larson

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the…

— James McAvoy

We don't outline, so we don't have prospective tasks to divide up. It's just, we start at the beginning and talk the first scene…

— Ethan Coen

I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of…

— Lucy Hughes-Hallett

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene…

— Piers Anthony

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

What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a movie. And…

— Richard LaGravenese

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

— Nelson DeMille

I try to outline. I'm a lazy outliner. I will put the points down of each chapter or series of chapters, but it always…

— Steve Toltz

I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of my novel.'…

— Susan Minot

I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like a film…

— Ruskin Bond