Afraid Quote by Barry Lopez

If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way of expressing…

— Jerry Pinkney

I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where…

— Deb Caletti

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

— John Edgar Wideman

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

— Jay Asher

When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to…

— Karan Mahajan

When I'm writing, I'm thinking, "Well, this might be a book that I'll always be happy with, and certainly readers will be happy with."…

— John Edgar Wideman

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to…

— Michael Connelly

When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!"

— Lewis Black

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

— Zadie Smith

You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy,…

— Louise Erdrich

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

— Dylan Moran

I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter…

— Brian Tracy