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It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.

— Jon Gordon

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely…

— John Hodgman

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I…

— Beverly Cleary

I was a political journalist for a long time. I wrote a book about Putin. I made all kinds of trouble.

— Masha Gessen

I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it…

— Gideon Defoe

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage.…

— Jim McKelvey

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote…

— Len Deighton

I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about…

— David Copperfield

Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die.…

— Sophy Burnham

reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author…

— Ann Patchett

I remembered a long time ago, Kit Williams hid a golden hare somewhere in Britain and wrote a book which was layered…

— Peter Molyneux

“I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could…

— Beth Revis

I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English…

— Theodora Goss

At 31, I decided to learn how to read and, at 32, read my first book: Lee Iacocca's autobiography. Ten years later,…

— Diamond Dallas Page

The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a…

— Laila Lalami

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I…

— Sophie Kinsella

I think of my success as a kind of fluke. How else could I possibly think of it? And although it's a…

— Ayana Mathis

“If a writer manages to be fascinating about his own novels, then there are only two possibilities: either he is merely voicing…

— Amélie Nothomb

“Once upon a time, I wrote a book. People seemed to dig it, so I wrote another and one after that. That’s…

— Hank Moody

“I have had so many spectacular failures, but looking back, I can see how each of them led me a little closer…

— Timothy Ferriss

One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you…

— Walter Mosley

I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t…

— Michael Jackson

My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss…

— Alicia Coppola

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of…

— Keith Miller

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to…

— Henry Jenkins

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

— Nana Mouskouri

I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where…

— Cynthia Voigt

We all make mistakes, nobody ever wrote a book saying 'This is how you live your life.'

— Jeremy Kyle

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing…

— Glen Duncan

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

— Cassandra Clare

I think that people think that since I literally wrote the book on how to love yourself that I love myself all…

— Tess Holliday

I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write.…

— Tony Gaskins

People like that I wrote a book - that's cute, but oh, making a business out of it? That's not nice.

— Rupi Kaur

The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after…

— Natalie Goldberg

I actually didn't do any writing of music while I was locked up. I wrote a book, but I didn't do any…

— Da Brat

It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first…

— John C. Maxwell

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not…

— Sam Horn

Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you.

— David Letterman

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

— Kate Morton