Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks. — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
“If you want to write books to get famous, the books will suck.Write books to tell the story you want to tell… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
“I told him I wanted to major in creative writing and sit around in yoga pants and do nothing but write books… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of… — Tim Howard 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 want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good.… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“The depressed don’t write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Part of the job of a children's author is to write books that will be remembered, definitely, but if I might go… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write… — Bob Weir Copy Share Image
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books — Julian Clary Copy Share Image
You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.” — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading, and as a child I used to try desperately to write books like the ones I read. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace. — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world,… — Uri Geller Copy Share Image
I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
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