Beach Quote by Daphne du Maurier

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

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 Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…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

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over…

— Dani Shapiro

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

A book is like carrying a garden in your pocket. It always is full of life, new smells, and new things to see. Always…

— Curly

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

I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where…

— Deb Caletti

Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order…

— Mark Kingwell

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Sharyn McCrumb

We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and…

— Eleanor Brown

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems…

— Virginia Woolf