“Why would a guy spend five years writing a book when he can buy one for ten bucks?” — Richard Johnson Copy Share Image
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide. — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always. — Benjamin Alire Saenz 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 started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book.… — Steve Martin 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 like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written… — Adam Clymer Copy Share Image
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Are you writing a book?leave this chapter out and make a mystery,or go screw yourself and make it a love story — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as… — Joel Dicker Copy Share Image
For many years I wanted to be a rock star but of course that didn't work out. I did however write on… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
“I hear you don't write any more," he says... "Not true," I inform him. "You should see the margins of my student… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature… — Novalis 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 that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing.… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
Living our lifes is like writing a book. It starts the same for all of us and the ending is unknown for… — Andreea-Paula Calugaru Copy Share Image
Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“This is apparently a little promotional ¶ where we’re supposed to explain “how and why we came to” the subject of our… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I'm loath to bring up the E word here, and I'm even more embarrassed to talk about "millennials" in this way because… — Jennifer Romolini Copy Share Image
“Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible, it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
“Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living. — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person. — Randhir Kapoor Copy Share Image