I will write another book if I feel like it.

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book,…

— Mark Batterson

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

— Jane Austen

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

— Diana Gabaldon

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

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

— Diana Abu-Jaber

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

I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,…

— Jami Attenberg

There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his…

— Karina Longworth

You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's…

— Jami Attenberg

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a…

— Jess Walter

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

— George Noory

You have to learn how to write each book.

— Kate DiCamillo

“To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment…”

— Joseph Epstein