I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write…

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

— Marianne Williamson

I want to write books.

— La La Anthony

I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.

— Andrea Hirata

I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.

— Kameron Hurley

I only want to write books and movies about women.

— Nick Hornby

If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write…

— Josh Lieb

I want to write books that only those who read them claim they did.

— Vikrant Parsai

I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies…

— Emily Rodda

Years and years ago, I said I did not want to write academic books. I want to write books that are in the language…

— Gary Chapman

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.

— Jonathan Lethem

“I've come to the realization that I really only want to write books that maybe I can't write.”

— Markus Zusak

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me…

— Gretchen Rubin

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.

— Charles J. Shields