I learned that books are never finished, that it is…

“God, I hate Sleeping Beauties.” Why that story, out of all the possible stories, should have the sort of staying power it does is…

— Seanan McGuire

“What is writing? It’s me, the author, taking the state inside my mind and, via the gift of language, grafting it onto yours. But”

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.

— T. R. Pearson

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some…

— Martin Luther

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of…

— Neil Gaiman

No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too…

— Zoe Foster Blake

Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I…

— J. K. Rowling

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

— Oscar Wilde

Books are finished.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

— G. E. M. Skues

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

— Henry David Thoreau

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which…

— Nicolas Chamfort

All I have learned, I learned from books.

— Abraham Lincoln

I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.

— Paul Smith

I learned from books that I picked up. That was something that just came out of nowhere but continued to be an attraction. So…

— Paul Smith