Sequential Writing Quotes

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

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

When I wrote 'Savage Season,' it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote one, I never intended to write the next one.

I found the success of 'In a Dark, Dark Wood' really distracting when I was writing 'The Woman in Cabin 10,' but in a way, the fact that 'Cabin 10' was doing well felt quite freeing while I was writing 'The Lying Game.'

I have to write in sequence and only in sequence.

The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

We don't outline, so we don't have prospective tasks to divide up. It's just, we start at the beginning and talk the first scene through, write it up, proceed to the next.

I kinda write in sequences that I live through.