Thomas Perry Quotes

There are many challenges I face while working on a book. Working within deadlines and schedules is certainly one of the bigger ones for me. I want to create the best possible book I can for my readers with words and pictures - and that takes time to get it just right.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.

I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.

I'm just going to write the best books I can.

I write the best book that I can write each time.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

I give each book however long it needs to be the best I can make it.

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

When I'm writing the text for a book like 'Little White Rabbit,' I read it aloud, alone, in my studio, again and again and again - because the rhythm has to be exactly right. After I get my manuscript to the point where I think it is perfect, I begin to think about what I want the art to look like.

I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.

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

I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you don't happen to use what you've worked on that day, it has taught you something and you'll be amazed when you might come back to it and use it again.

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.

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

I'm sure every author has their own process.

I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.