I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back…

I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish.…

— Chris Van Allsburg

I'm not very charismatic or telegenic. I feel bad for the kids waiting three hours in line for their book to be signed.

— Jeff Kinney

I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I…

— Rick Riordan

“A man who worships the Creator is a book signed by the Author.”

— Robert Mullin

I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

When I wrote 'Goose' I gave my assistant my password, she locked me out of Twitter, and I wrote the book in five weeks.…

— Dawn O'Porter

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

— Kate Morton

“To be honest, however, I will have to admit that I wrote this book for the original model - the one who was overkidsed,…

— Erma Bombeck

The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a historical fact,…

— Laila Lalami

I think of my success as a kind of fluke. How else could I possibly think of it? And although it's a banal thing…

— Ayana Mathis

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

“I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.”

— Lawrence Welk

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.”

— Niall Ferguson