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...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything

— Mark Haddon

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

— Dinaw Mengestu

“I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.”

— Lawrence Welk

“I haven't told why I wrote the book, but I haven't told you why I sneeze, either. A book is a sneeze.”

— E.B. White

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote…

— Caitlin Moran

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I…

— Jami Attenberg

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

— Terrell Owens

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

— Lawrence Welk

“I don't know then. I wrote my book on the Holocaust without worrying about where the fucking bar code would go.”

— Yann Martel

I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me…

— Donna Leon

That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book.…

— Bruce Springsteen

Seeing my book on a billboard in New York was a bucket-list-type thing, but also a deeply surreal moment. I had to…

— Ruth Ware

I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old…

— Tom Peters

I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in…

— Robert Klein

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as…

— Goldie Hawn

“To be honest, however, I will have to admit that I wrote this book for the original model - the one who…

— Erma Bombeck

How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect…

— John Green

Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I…

— George H. W. Bush

“Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either.…

— Donald Miller

If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my…

— Condoleezza Rice

Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis…

— Robert Crais

“I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of…

— Richard Wright

Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book…

— Michael Scott

I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity…

— Lurlene McDaniel

Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you…

— Lena Dunham

“Either way, you wrote the book and now you’re complaining about the reviews I’m giving it,” I quipped.”

— Tarryn Fisher

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

— Alistair Maclean

“I wrote this book to inspire young women to be brave and believe in themselves.”

— Sherine Calloway

My daughter wrote a book called 'Kelly Tough' when she was 19 years old. It's a must-read.

— Jim Kelly

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

— Anupam Kher

I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.

— Greg Behrendt

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead…

— Heidi Julavits

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get…

— Stephen Chbosky

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

— Jonathan Franzen

In 2008, when I wrote Book 1 and Book 2, the head of the publishing house suggested twelve books - one each…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the…

— Niall Ferguson

I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a…

— John C. Maxwell

I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really…

— Reginald Arvizu