I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the…

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If…

— Erica Jong

Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.

— Simon Sinek

“If you want to be a writer you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot,” Stephen King…

— Ann Handley

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

— Joseph Addison

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

— Umberto Eco

The thing is - do we really need another writer who writes a book every eighteen months, whether the quality is wonderful or not?…

— Junot Diaz

“Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene.”

— Philip Gerard

I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and... look for wrecks.…

— Clive Cussler

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

— Anonymous

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.”

— Casper Silk

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Everybody writes a book too many.

— Anonymous

“One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe