Book Quote by Catherine Cookson

I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book.

— Navya Nair

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

— Sharyn McCrumb

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

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Mark Vonnegut

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then…

— Nora Roberts

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either…

— Khaled Hosseini

If somebody says that they want to write a book but do not know what to write about, they will never write a book.

— Ravi Subramanian

I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.

— Nathan Englander

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

— Elena Ferrante

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin