Book Quote by Sue Townsend

My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

— Richard Bach

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

— Justin Cronin

I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished…

— Heidi Julavits

So before I start work on a book, I'm like a pregnant mole - I obsessively tidy and order my closets and everything in…

— Diane Ackerman

There's a weird contrast between my usual daily routine and then my book coming out. It's like someone's just suddenly opened the curtains in…

— Lisa Jewell

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

— Khaled Hosseini

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

— Ferran Adria

I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer…

— Megan McCafferty

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

— Diablo Cody

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for…

— Joanna Scott