Book Quote by Anatoly Rybakov

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

— Margaret Atwood

“Publishing a book is like giving birth. You labor over it and then produce what you think is the most beautiful thing in the…

— Jordan Silver

I am neither an Occidental writer nor a Russian writer. I am an accidental writer.

— Joseph Brodsky

The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.

— Anne Enright

You have to write the book that wants to be written,

— Madeleine L'Engle

As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things.…

— Robert Greene

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them.…

— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose…

— Gertrude Stein

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

— Ann Patchett

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

— Jay Asher

With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel - but rarely for content, and especially not without a widespread outcry.

— Andrew Shaffer