So many (too many) books are published every year, and it…

In itself, I spent a year writing, you know all these different songs and when it came to recording the record, I just pulled…

— Wednesday 13

I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I…

— Chelsea Cain

Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

— Anne Lamott

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment.…

— Isabel Allende

Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year.

— Marie Kondo

I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year, and I did.

— Robert Hass

It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

— Scott McCloud

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

— Ernest Hemingway

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another…

— Mario Batali

“Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.”

— Kevis Hendrickson

Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on…

— Tom Hodgkinson

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather…

— Elmore Leonard

Writing a book is an adventure.

— Winston Churchill