Book Quote by Charles Wright

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

— Jane Gardam

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

— Jean Rostand

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

— Phyllis A. Whitney

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out.…

— Mark Twain

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't…

— Michael Crichton

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

— Edmund Wilson

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 Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…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

“No book is written; it's always re-written”

— Jean Fullerton

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not…

— Michel Foucault

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I…

— Yann Martel

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in.

— William Goldman