The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was…

The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher…

— Mark Haddon

I'd never done any Beckett before 'Krapp,' and I haven't done any of his other plays since. I've always felt that 'Krapp' is an…

— John Hurt

I wanted to write a semi-autobiographical piece that was uplifting and heart-warming.

— Kathy Burke

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was…

— Laurie Anderson

I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

— Delmore Schwartz

In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I wrote on the fourth season of 'Arrested Development.'

— Paul Rust

In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

— Stephen Elliott

I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying…

— Daniel Tammet

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies…

— Noah Hawley

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

— Matt Ridley

So March: Book One was the first book I ever wrote. And it was the most terrifying process I've ever been through.

— Andrew Aydin

You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you…

— Margaret Atwood

Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was affecting the…

— Eckhart Tolle

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his…

— David McCullough