Book Quote by Dee Brown

When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you…

— Claire Messud

You have to force yourself to give up and to move onto something else. That's the way you grow as a writer, by trying…

— Karl Iagnemma

I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you don't happen…

— Eoin Colfer

I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because…

— Patrick Modiano

I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed…

— Tim Howard

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense…

— Russell Banks

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 had wanted to be a writer for a very long time, and I had started a lot of books and failed to finish…

— Leigh Bardugo

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last…

— Naomi Klein

Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me,…

— Sandra Cisneros

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.

— Sara Gruen