--- title: "12 Books Wrote Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 12 Books Wrote quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Books Wrote sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b7/ruskin-bond-1864_books_the-books-that-i-wrote-in-my-late-teens_1141126.png" --- > [The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruskin-bond/the-books-that-i-wrote-in-my-late-teens-and-20s-the-little-love/) [Ruskin Bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruskin-bond/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b7/ruskin-bond-1864_books_the-books-that-i-wrote-in-my-late-teens_1141126.png) > [I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/upamanyu-chatterjee/i-don-t-think-i-would-do-better-books-if-i-wrote-full-time-i-write/) [Upamanyu Chatterjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/upamanyu-chatterjee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/697/upamanyu-chatterjee-27315_book_i-don-t-think-i-would-do-better-books-if_3174780.png) > [Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-emerson-fosdick/life-is-like-a-library-owned-by-the-author-in-it-are-a-few-books/) [Harry Emerson Fosdick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-emerson-fosdick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/934/harry-emerson-fosdick-3672_book_life-is-like-a-library-owned-by-the-auth_1460845.png) > [“ The Lost Weekend was the only book, out of five books, that I wrote sober, without stimulus or sedative.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/the-lost-weekend-was-the-only-book-out-of-five-books-that-i-wrote/) [Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f57/blake-bailey-22734_books_the-lost-weekend-was-the-only-book-out-o_986039.png) > [I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-messner/i-had-no-ghost-writers-for-the-books-i-wrote-every-line-myself/) [Reinhold Messner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-messner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/205/reinhold-messner-3556_books_i-had-no-ghost-writers-for-the-books-i-w_2066486.jpg) > [Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-fadiman/books-wrote-our-life-story-and-as-they-accumulated-on-our-shelves-and/) [Anne Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-fadiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d7/anne-fadiman-7855_book_books-wrote-our-life-story-and-as-they-a_2144910.jpg) > [Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/daniel-handler-s-a-writer-musician-and-the-author-of-among-other/) [Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11d/daniel-handler-1043_available_daniel-handler-s-a-writer-musician-and-t_2107701.jpg) > [I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chrissy-costanza/i-definitely-thought-i-was-going-to-write-books-i-wrote-a-couple-of/) [Chrissy Costanza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chrissy-costanza/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9e/chrissy-costanza-18803_books_i-definitely-thought-i-was-going-to-writ_490856.jpg) > [Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-bunting/yes-i-have-two-books-that-are-about-me-one-of-them-i-wrote-and-the/) [Eve Bunting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-bunting/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/038/eve-bunting-38572_about_yes-i-have-two-books-that-are-about-me-o_2108131.png) > [It was an easy decision for me which books to self-publish as ebooks. I got the rights back to two Avon books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-henley/it-was-an-easy-decision-for-me-which-books-to-self-publish-as-ebooks/) [Virginia Henley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-henley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3a/virginia-henley-27676_back_it-was-an-easy-decision-for-me-which-boo_2160654.jpg) > [In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lennon/in-the-two-books-i-wrote-even-though-they-were-written-in-a-sort-of/) [John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lennon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92f/john-lennon-322_book_in-the-two-books-i-wrote-even-though-the_219771.jpg) > [“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ana-claudia-antunes/there-are-always-messages-even-enigmas-to-be-searched-mysteries-to-be/) [Ana Claudia Antunes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ana-claudia-antunes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4b/ana-claudia-antunes-5115_accounts_there-are-always-messages-even-enigmas-t_1954699.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-wrote/#itemlist", "name": "Books Wrote Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ruskin Bond" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruskin-bond/the-books-that-i-wrote-in-my-late-teens-and-20s-the-little-love/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b7/ruskin-bond-1864_books_the-books-that-i-wrote-in-my-late-teens_1141126.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b7/ruskin-bond-1864_books_the-books-that-i-wrote-in-my-late-teens_1141126.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b7/ruskin-bond-1864_books_the-books-that-i-wrote-in-my-late-teens_1141126.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.” — Ruskin Bond", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. 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