I am writing a book and that takes third place of…

Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all…

— Aristotle

Customers don't always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was…

— Howard Schultz

I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give…

— James O. Fraser

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

— Ted Bell

“That one special book that takes you on a trip you never expected to go on...”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do…

— Jan Brett

“the book takes rank with those books which are bits of life rather than products of art.”

— Richard Henry Dana Jr

The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it.…

— Cate Marvin

“This book takes the opposing stand that in order to go deeply inside ourselves, we must journey within our physical bodies.”

— Leslie Kaminoff

You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...'…

— Janet Malcolm

“Reading a book takes you on a journey without leaving the current place you are in.”

— LaShonna Dyson

“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