Book Quote by William Gibson

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

— Howard Jacobson

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

— John Piper

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will…

— Ronee Blakley

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance, and in…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“A book is never, ever finished. You simply get to a point where you and your editor are reasonably happy with how it is…

— Kimberly Pauley

“Remember that the first rule when editing a book is to DO NO HARM.”

— Shawn Coyne

When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that…

— Toni Morrison

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

— Fran Lebowitz

The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.

— Joyce Carol Oates

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

— David Mitchell