Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.” — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
“No one cares about books, that’s why you can write anything you want in them.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let… — Sarra Cannon Copy Share Image
I hope and pray that I'll be one of those fortunate people who have many, many books to write. I don't begrudge… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write,… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living … — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Not everyone was thrilled with Gutenberg’s creation. As today, there were pessimists and scolds who viewed new technology as a blight on… — William Powers Copy Share Image
“What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise? Great, great question. In the world of writing, everyone… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
The views I have, the books I write, are read as political, or even as manifestos. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader. — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“I believe the books we write are the dreams we couldn't find on the bookshelves...” — Ty Zeiter Copy Share Image
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
