Books Quote by Siegfried Lenz

I stand by what I write and follow through on what I write.

— Arundhati Roy

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected…

— Margaret Mahy

I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take…

— Ellie Goulding

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you…

— Walter Jon Williams

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

— Margaret Haddix

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and…

— Amy Bloom

Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.

— Cary Fukunaga

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything…

— Jennifer Egan

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on,…

— Joan Didion

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my…

— Sharon Kay Penman