Book Quote by Bertrand Russell

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

But authors before they write should read.

— Fanny Burney

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of…

— Seth Godin

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

— Richard Curtis

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

— David Baldacci

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

— Mark Vonnegut

Every book that doesn't first have to get past a gatekeeper or two, or 10, before being put in front of the public will…

— Chris Pavone

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are…

— Ruth Stout

Like most new writers, I could only hope that one day one publisher might agree to publish one of my books; I couldn't imagine…

— Emma Healey

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way…

— Friedrich Nietzsche