Accepting Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

I've never written a book before.

— Keith Emerson

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

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

— Marguerite Young

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the…

— George Saunders

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the…

— E. L. Doctorow

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

— David Bezmozgis

Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

— Elizabeth Berg

In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing…

— Evelyn Lau

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you…

— Berry Gordy

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

— R. A. Salvatore