I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off... →
Eric Brown
My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This... →
Jeffrey Brown
I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's always just been... →
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
Louise Brown
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the... →
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have... →
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like... →
I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the... →
Margaret Wise Brown