Book Quote by Ann Brashares

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the…

— E. L. Doctorow

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

— Margaret Bourke-White

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

— Madeleine L'Engle

You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist,…

— Irvine Welsh

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

— Philip Roth

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

— Jose Saramago

Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that…

— J. P. Donleavy

Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos