Book Quote by Anonymous

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut

I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them.

— Simon Singh

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

— A. A. Milne

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

Why don't you write books people can read?

— Nora Joyce

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Gore Vidal

Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.

— Catherine Cookson

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

But authors before they write should read.

— Fanny Burney

“Books don't need to be published," Lars Högström said. "The main thing is that they should be written.”

— Torgny Lindgren

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

— John Hodgman