One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has…

— Terry Pratchett

No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.

— Andy Rooney

Everybody writes a book too many.

— Anonymous

“Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.”

— Casper Silk

“Write a book, create an identity, create a property, create a legacy for yourself.”

— Neeraj Singhvi

“A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.”

— Christy Hall

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

— Umberto Eco

The thing is - do we really need another writer who writes a book every eighteen months, whether the quality is wonderful or not?…

— Junot Diaz

“Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene.”

— Philip Gerard

I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and... look for wrecks.…

— Clive Cussler

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

— Anonymous

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one of them…

— Karin Slaughter

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If…

— Erica Jong