Arthur Phillips

Books come from the act of writing, the habit of writing. Not even Nabokov wrote books as he thought of them. Everyone starts it one way and it becomes something else.
-Arthur Phillips

Writing Prague was "improvisational," he said. "I wrote two hours every day -- a rule," he said. "Some days, I wrote pages; some days, outlines or scenes that I would throw away. I'd write a synopsis of the story."
-Arthur Phillips