Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our…

In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When I begin…

— Thomas L. Dumm

Youve got to live life to write a book about it.

— Andy Williams

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a…

— Jess Walter

You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's…

— Jami Attenberg

You have to learn how to write each book.

— Kate DiCamillo

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 learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

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

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

— Diana Abu-Jaber

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I have all the time and space in the world when I write a book.

— Diana Gabaldon

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which,…

— Robert Graves

When you write a book, people legitimise it by actually reading the book and so it's almost okay to write another one.

— Eoin Macken

I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs.

— Dizzee Rascal