Books Quote by Roy Peter Clark

“Waiting is often the best part of the story," he explains. "After all, once you know the story, its over.”

— Ella Frank

“Your story should open as a door to the reader, where the action has already begun and they have to run to keep up.”

— Davis Bunn

“and yet reading is what ended up saving me.”

— Rachel Morgan

“Never let the state of waiting be in your mind. Just do something else and do it by intention.”

— Toba Beta

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.

— Raymond Carver

“This time it was the sentence opening the last part of a story I had worked on for months: a sentence as is often…

— Louis Zukofsky

“…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience…

— Martin Amis

“Sometimes the story is still missing because it's still waiting to be written.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“But don’t wait for something to happen before you begin to write; pay attention to the world around you, right now.”

— Kim Addonizio

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

— Jasper Fforde

“Don't wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right.”

— Roy T. Bennett

“The most important thing to do when writing a book is to finish it.”

— Suzanna Reeves