Books Quote by Stephen Collins

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

— Stephen Sondheim

You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.

— Martin Amis

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm…

— Catherine Fisher

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a…

— David Grann

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't…

— Michael Crichton

I always want to write something better than the last book.

— Tracy Kidder

If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times…

— Peter Carey

I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral…

— Karen Russell