Books are written through you, not by you

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written…

— Neil Gaiman

“Many books have been written on Thomas Merton already.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

— Oscar Wilde

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

— Judy Blume

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

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

— Diana Gabaldon

Writing a book is an adventure.

— Winston Churchill

A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in…

— Jacqueline Woodson

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Some day I'll write a book and call it 'How I Got the Nickname Pumpsie' and sell it for one dollar, and if everybody…

— Pumpsie Green

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales. They were…

— Lee Unkrich

“We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by…

— Laurence Cossé