After Quote by Sophie Kinsella

By the end of the book, it is quite different than the way you thought it would be when you started the book -…

— Jane Jacobs

“I started with a book, and that led me to a library, and that led me everywhere.”

— Terry Pratchett

“I am not usually such a sluggard," he said, as we walked quickly along the street, "but yesterday evening I got a novel. I…

— R. Austin Freeman

I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition,…

— Terence Winter

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and…

— Charlaine Harris

Every book in here I wrote, Some I'm not too proud of some I wish I could burn, So many pages I wrote, wish…

— Frank Ocean

“I am I: and I must follow that furrow, not copy another. That is the only justification for my writing, living.”

— Virginia Woolf

I would go to the studio and then I'd go back on tour and then I would come off and go on. And so…

— Maisie Peters

There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises… If you…

— Toni Morrison

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

— Hisham Matar

“I think, use my imagination, and write; therefore, I am. Every day I'm writing, I'm living. Every other day is just waiting.”

— Michael Berish