Books Quote by Stephen King

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an…

— Cynthia Ozick

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

— Anne Lamott

The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.

— Annie Dillard

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have…

— Paul Beatty

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

— Liane Moriarty

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in…

— Dave Barry

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music,…

— Paul Auster

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently,…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on my bedroom…

— Erik Larson

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

— Steven Saylor

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb