Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only…

“Ah, God, it were an easy Matter to choose a Calling had one all Time to live in! I should be fifty Years a…

— John Barth

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

— Julian Barnes

Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason…

— Edward P. Jones

Life is like a book, but only you can choose what it's about.

— Brielle Amos

“The Bible is just a book. But, you choose whether to prove it's all true or nothing.”

— Shim Steward

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

— Herman Melville

I never made kimchi before. I talk about my first time making it in the book, and I'm not a big baker, but I…

— Michelle Zauner

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Yet I'm making a book and I'm going to care immensely about what words get bound in the pages, and I want the object…

— Jonathan Lethem

I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone'…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

— V. S. Naipaul

Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for…

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

— David Mitchell

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

— Blaise Pascal

Nothing can compare to creating characters and worlds out of thin air with your friends and making a book exactly the way you think…

— Rick Remender