She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to…

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“She wasn't all that interested, as a reader, in the reader. She was still partial to that increasingly eclipsed entity: the writer. Madeleine had…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Writing a book should be the best way to break into someone's house.”

— Krishna

“Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky…

— Betty Dravis

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long,…

— George Orwell

Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that's a…

— Kristin Hannah

By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then…

— Michael Ian Black

I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where…

— Deb Caletti

I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood. We all…

— Shakti Gawain

Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt…

— Jon Stewart

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another…

— Mario Batali

“Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.”

— Kevis Hendrickson

Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on…

— Tom Hodgkinson

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather…

— Elmore Leonard

Writing a book is an adventure.

— Winston Churchill