Book Quote by David Levithan

Never settle for being a character in someone else's story when you are meant to be the author of your own.

— Pacifiersucker

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

— Olivia Munn

“Even if you aren’t writing books, you are the author of your own life. Your life is filled with these small and big decisions…

— Rebecca K. Sampson

“You're lucky to have within your grasp something that everyone envies. You can't act as though that didn't exist, as though it wasn't part…

— Delphine de Vigan

“When you start writing, you may think you will use the book to guide readers down certain paths and through certain themes. But, the…

— M.D. Cliatt

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw…

— Grace Paley

Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you,…

— Barbara Abercrombie

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say…

— Andrew Greeley

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

“Each book is a new book. I’ve never written it before and I have to teach myself how to write it as I go…

— Paul Auster

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm…

— Alan Rickman