I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book…

I think, for me, there's The Book I Should Write and The Book I Wanted to Write - and they weren't the same book.…

— Marlon James

I've always enjoyed working with kids whether it be hockey school, things like that, and I just thought it would kind of be neat…

— Mike Fisher

“If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.”

— Don Roff

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

Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else…

— Colson Whitehead

It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a…

— Diana Peterfreund

The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.

— Anne Enright

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over…

— Dani Shapiro

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

— Holly Lisle

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people…

— Paulo Coelho

You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better…

— Cheryl Strayed

When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the book's demands,…

— Micheline Aharonian Marcom

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that…

— Ashly Lorenzana

“If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word. For it…

— Tarun Betala

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

— A.M. Homes