If God tells me to write another book, then I will.

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But to take…

— Sarah Jio

You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's…

— Jami Attenberg

When you write a book, people legitimise it by actually reading the book and so it's almost okay to write another one.

— Eoin Macken

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

— George Noory

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a…

— Jess Walter

You have to learn how to write each book.

— Kate DiCamillo

I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune.…

— Camille Perri

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

— Diana Abu-Jaber

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I have all the time and space in the world when I write a book.

— Diana Gabaldon

“God never tells me to get over something and just get past it. Never. Instead, He asks me to trust Him with every circumstance.10”

— John S. Lynch

“I think about something I once heard on the radio. About Abraham and Isaac." "I was afraid you'd say something like that." "You asked."…

— A.J. Kazinski