Book Quote by Annie Dillard

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down…

— Jimmy Barnes

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go…

— Robertson Davies

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole…

— Billy Burke

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going…

— Ted Bell

“Now when people ask how I’m doing, I say that, as an American, I’m more worried than ever—but as a person, I’m doing okay.…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is…

— Anthony Trollope

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

— Frank McCourt

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end.…

— Anthony Horowitz

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

— Gillian Flynn

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in…

— Charles Bukowski

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

— Marco Roth