You've got to live life to write a book about it.

Youve got to live life to write a book about it.

— Andy Williams

“You‘ve got your whole life to write your first book and six months to write the second one.”

— Richard Lawrence Belford

Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's…

— R. Kelly

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out…

— KT Tunstall

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.

— Thomas L. Dumm

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

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

— Diana Gabaldon

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

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

— Diana Abu-Jaber

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 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

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

You have to learn how to write each book.

— Kate DiCamillo