Back Quote by William T. Vollmann

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.

— Matt Hancock

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet…

— Maureen Howard

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title. And when…

— Andrew Aydin

I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of…

— Lucy Hughes-Hallett

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

— Stephen King

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to…

— Charlaine Harris

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount…

— Jesse James Garrett

Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities…

— Ken Liu

Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a…

— Fran Lebowitz

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts,…

— Chevy Stevens