I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to…

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still…

— Jason Robert Brown

“Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and other times…

— Debra Dixon

I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending…

— Donna Leon

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Wrote the book on pain.

— Shinedown

My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a…

— Alicia Coppola

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

— Geoff Thompson

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

— Dick Dale

I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up,…

— Robert Klein

When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to realize over…

— Trevor Noah

My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life.…

— Anne Roiphe

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote…

— Jim Gaffigan

I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.

— Greg Behrendt