It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
Doris Lessing
I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a... →
I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone, who, let's say... →
Buddy Lester
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of... →
Jonathan Lethem
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I... →
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental... →
I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.
James Levine
My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad... →
David Levithan
He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
Monica Lewinsky
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis