Acting Quote by Tana French

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot…

— Scarface

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about…

— Charles Stross

I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed…

— Stefan Zweig

I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you…

— Orhan Pamuk

I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands…

— Rebecca Miller

When lockdown happened, and I didn't have that focus to sit down and write a novel, which is what I was supposed to be…

— Dawn O'Porter

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

— Harper Lee

It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took…

— Molly Antopol

When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long and it's…

— Linda Sue Park

Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back…

— Jack Gantos