Books Quote by Ruth Ware

No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested in what…

— Stan Lee

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

— Jean M. Auel

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

— Erin Morgenstern

I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)

— Mary Ann Shaffer

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I…

— Gracie Allen

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

— Howard Jacobson

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

— Gregory Maguire

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

— Noah Baumbach

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

— Joan Didion

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

— Ann Patchett