will you be the one reading the book or writing the book

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is writing, and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

— Donna Tartt

“Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than writing a…

— Heather Sellers

That underscored this idea that when we're reading a book or writing a book, you're in an act of co-creation. The reader and the…

— George Saunders

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of…

— Chris Matthews

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad…

— Thomas L. Dumm

It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took…

— Molly Antopol

With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of,…

— Daniel H. Pink

I think of my success as a kind of fluke. How else could I possibly think of it? And although it's a banal thing…

— Ayana Mathis

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri

My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content vary according…

— Nate Powell

“reading a book, or remembering something I heard on the radio last week, or admiring the flowers on the table, I am doing”

— Geoffrey Durham

Writing a book is an adventure.

— Winston Churchill