“What could be more lovely than writing a book about something you love?” — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us,… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I am writing a book entitled "Conquest." Please be ready. It is a book children should red.” — Charles Keith Hardman Copy Share Image
I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together.… — Bruce Vilanch Copy Share Image
“Responding to a moderator at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2008 (video), about the Spanish words in his book: When all of… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine someone playing me or writing a book about who I am. Although I let people write articles and try… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing a book… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
You try to learn who you are. You work hard. You've either got it or you don't when it comes to writing… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
