I always wanted to write a book that would have people…

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune.…

— Camille Perri

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

— Billy Bob Thornton

I think, for me, there's The Book I Should Write and The Book I Wanted to Write - and they weren't the same book.…

— Marlon James

We wanted to write a book that we would have read as kids, and would love to read to our children.

— Tom Fletcher

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang…

— Jessye Norman

Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

— Gabby Douglas

“Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think…

— Daniel Willey

For me, I wanted to write a book about getting into comedy. That's what I wanted to write.

— Lee Mack

“I always wanted to write a book, but it looked really hard: how did you get all the lines to come out even on…

— Mary Norris

I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen some day.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

I wanted to write a book about the stories, ones that you sit around and tell your friends.

— Sean Payton

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

— George Noory

I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot…

— Scarface

GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a…

— Peter Hedges