Brent Runyon Quotes

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

Inspiration is easy. The hard part is getting the inspiration onto 300 pages in an interesting, cohesive, easy-to-read but hard-to-forget story.

Writing a book is not easy.

I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

Writing novels is the most exciting.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft.

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.