Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it,… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
“When you're writing a book with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe… — Penny Junor Copy Share Image
I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's tempting to start each sentence with an apology or disclaimer. To preface everything with "In my life I've found" so that… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
When I'm really plugged in I find it difficult to write. It's like digging a well. If you make a void, something… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“If I had lied to the CIA, perhaps I might have passed a test. Instead of writing a book about the White… — David Litt Copy Share Image
“The vocation to the priesthood, according to your memoirs, ‘naturally matured within me without any grand conversion experiences’. If there was nothing… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“This is not an autobiography. It is, rather, a kind of curriculum vitae — my attempt to show how one writer was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I write because it’s a way of puzzling out answers to situations in the world that I don’t understand. The act of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I know I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader… — Alex Nunns Copy Share Image
“What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise? Great, great question. In the world of writing, everyone… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“11 WAYS TO BE UNREMARKABLY AVERAGE 1. Accept what people tell you at face value. 2. Don’t question authority. 3. Go to… — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like washing an elephant. You don't know from where you should start and where you should end.” — Yashvardhan Shukla Copy Share Image
The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have… — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a book, and I'm warned, 'Oh, this is unsaleable, you need to make it shorter,' or, 'It has to… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“La dernière chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la première. ( The last thing… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
