My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I was on this weird, wild goose chase where I thought I might try to adapt a Willa Cather book. And if… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For 30 years I wrote for newspapers and magazines, wrote books on the Dallas Cowboys' dynasties of the '70s and '90s, wrote… — Skip Bayless Copy Share Image
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass.… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Every single person I met and that knew I wrote books, made fun of me. And, most of my teachers said I… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.” — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I'm reading "The Sunset of a Splendid Century" by W.H. Lewis. He was C.S. Lewis's brother. He wrote two books about the… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“done coma, walking/talking,art, cookery. scouts then wrote two books, asked for help, gave a book to HRH Princess Anne, tried publisher, got… — Gillian Firth Copy Share Image
I grew up in Nagpur, and I first started enjoying the author Harishankar Parsai. He wrote mostly satire, essays on the current… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
“I told a friend that I wrote books as a hobby, he then put his hand on my shoulder and gave me… — Boone Mortensen Copy Share Image
They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would… — Gloria Whelan Copy Share Image
