The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year. — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you. — Susan Wallace Copy Share Image
Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book. — Gabby Douglas Copy Share Image
I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I've been approached a few times to write a book, but it's always a concept or a plan that I've not actually… — Gemma Atkinson Copy Share Image
Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
You seem like you got so much to say, but baby if you think you know me so well you should write… — Jessica Copy Share Image
I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can… — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
I took time in the day to write as much of the book as I possibly could. I didn't write too much… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
“Memoirs? No, we want a how-to book. For spies.” “A how-to book?! A book can’t teach someone how to be equal parts… — It Books Copy Share Image
“Willie Nelson once said that sometimes, you have to either write a song or you kick your foot through a window. The… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to write a book, but it looked really hard: how did you get all the lines to come out… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in telling people what they should do, so I'll tell you what you shouldn't do instead... young people can't… — Lili Wilkinson Copy Share Image
What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“You don’t write a book when God called you to publish a library! You don’t plant a tree when God send you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I had been doing private readings for ten years when my guides said, "We want you to reach more people." Then I… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
As a digital creator, there's been so much pressure to write a book because so many of my peers have done it.… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me. — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.” — Jay Taylor Copy Share Image
The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous. — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate. — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book. — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos. — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone! — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.” — Martin Myers Copy Share Image
