Writing a book Quotes

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

— Ernest Hemingway

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

Writing a book is not easy.

— Lisa Jewell

I never really thought I'd be writing a book.

— Nate Bargatze

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

— Geraint Thomas

Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.

— Eva Gutowski

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

— Ridley Scott

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

— Steven Wright

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

— Gene Fowler

I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person.

— Randhir Kapoor

There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it.

— Jane Fallon

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

“Times are really bad. Everyone is writing a book and quoting themselves.”

— Omar Kiam

“Writing a book is very similar to a Politicians speech providing the book is Fantasy.”

— DENNIS SEDDON

“We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.”

— J.R. Rim

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

— Clive Barker

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day.…

— Gary Ross

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's…

— Willie Nelson

I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the…

— Albert Ellis

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions…

— Bernard Cornwell

“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing a book…

— Dodie Smith

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about…

— Judy Blume

“Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Just at the moment he's writing a book on famine - goodness! it's sad - and there's a dear little Chinese comrade…

— Nancy Mitford

“I'm writing a book on magic”, I explain, and I'm asked, “Real magic?” By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and…

— Lee Siegel

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get…

— Donald Miller

Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that…

— Lucy Corin

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange,…

— Chris Kyle

I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I think the thing I had to be careful about while writing a book was not to say anything that was revealing…

— Mike Birbiglia

I had a nice part at big newspapers, small newspapers, and then I went to a very big newspaper - 'The Wall…

— Erik Larson

By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up.…

— Michael Ian Black

If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or…

— Elif Batuman

...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater…

— Donald Knuth

Nick Thanks for being the friend who alwaysed believed in me who always understood who always cared :) I love yah soo…

— Talyiah

“On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays 1. A beginning ends what an end begins. 2. The despair of the blank page: it…

— James Richardson

“Nothingness is everything to philosophers. If you wonder what everything is, then you also wonder what nothing is. The question is whether…

— Taylor Carman

“Responding to a moderator at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2008 (video), about the Spanish words in his book: When all of…

— Junot Diaz

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

— Molly Antopol

“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take…

— Roald Dahl