Absurd Quote by Shane McCrae

With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then I settle…

— Michael Morpurgo

Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back…

— Jack Gantos

Most books germinate within you for a long time before they are ready to come out. I wrote several drafts of the novel over…

— Pankaj Mishra

I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed…

— Tim Howard

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

— Hilary Liftin

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

— Douglas Coupland

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

— Anna Sui

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.

— Jacqueline Woodson

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five…

— Terry Pratchett

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start -…

— William Manchester