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I feel 'The Night Circus' has a complete story arc in one book. I like it as a single volume. It feels complete to me, and I wouldn't want to stretch it out into something it's not.
Erin Morgenstern

Single, Night, Story

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is... My process is a bit messier.
Erin Morgenstern

Live, Before, While

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
Walter Isaacson

Romantic, Made, Two

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
Gary Ross

End, Writing, Mean

I love all the old classic Disney movies. 'Pinocchio.' There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives, and I'm an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm's fairy tales that I kind of wore out again and again. That's all stuff that lingers with you.
Gary Ross

Love, Movies, Old

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
Adrian Lyne

Real, Rules, Danger

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
John McCarthy

Name, Favorite, Asking

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.
John McCarthy

True, Someone, After

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
Anthony Horowitz

Fear, Greatest, Before

My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.
Anthony Horowitz

Time, Long, Writing

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.
Anthony Horowitz

Fear, End, Someone

As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.
Anthony Horowitz

Nice, Children, Next

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
Jonathan Carroll

Point, Almost, Rest

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
Jonathan Carroll

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
Orson Scott Card

Work, Different, Again

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
Carlos Fuentes

Down, Before, Write

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
Amy Tan

Family, Read, Books

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
Amy Tan

Hope, Said, Write

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.
Tom Wolfe

Long, After, Found

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.
Michael Ondaatje

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
Michael Ondaatje

Writing, Write, Darkness

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater

Love, Beauty, Art

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, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.
Louise Brown

Work, Powerful, Children

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 found its way into print.
Louise Brown

Brave, Her, Sure

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
Louise Brown

Working, Novel, Nepal

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.
Louise Brown

Single, Personal, Profound

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 perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
Louise Brown

Romantic, Perfect, Short

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
Louise Brown

Same, Write, Writers

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?'
Geraldine Brooks

Mind, Sometimes, Literature

If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion.
Geraldine Brooks

Past, Start, Tell

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