Books Quote by Sandra Brown

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

— Ben van Berkel

Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen.…

— Chang-Rae Lee

In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and…

— Janet Burroway

“I was walking around in an almost blind, crazy rage of madness. There was a story burning a hole in my brain, and it…

— Leigh Hershkovich

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

— Julie Klassen

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

— F. H. Bradley

The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

— Kingsley Amis

In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine…

— Terry Pratchett

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

— Will Hobbs

One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened that I…

— Lynne Rae Perkins

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair,…

— Ayelet Waldman