Book Quote by Carole Radziwill

People think writing is a very distinguished, cerebral thing, where all you do is write. It doesn't work that way. People have to see…

— Ravi Subramanian

Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort…

— Dan Poynter

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not…

— Chad Harbach

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

— Jennifer Weiner

When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in…

— Steven Pressfield

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book and sent…

— Michael Scott

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

— Elliot Perlman

Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was…

— George R. R. Martin

When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they couldn't get…

— Caroline Leavitt

“To the people who insist they really do have a great idea but they just can't write, I'd say that given some of the…

— Iain Banks