Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able…

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe…

— Frederick Busch

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

— Mac Barnett

Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the…

— Mary Roach

The fun thing we get to do is mess around playing all sorts of different people. People that really existed, people that exist in…

— Thomas Brodie-Sangster

“This book is for people who get too much email, which is a bit like saying, “This book is for people who have email.”

— Alexandra Samuel

The drama is the book of the people.

— Robert Aris Willmott

“M. Scott Peck’s classic book People of the Lie.”

— Charles J. Chaput

“Vincent liked to do things by the book, while John liked to throw the book at people.”

— Justin Conboy

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

— Dick Dale

When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!"

— Lewis Black

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your…

— Jay Leno

I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter…

— Brian Tracy

“Keep your nose in a book – and keep other people's noses out of which books you choose to stick your nose into!”

— Art Spiegelman