Book Quote by Emile M. Cioran

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world…

— Rachel Kushner

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

— Julian Barnes

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and I would…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people…

— Scott Spencer

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

— Walter Mosley

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no…

— Cyril Connolly

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their…

— Sylvia Day

“Writers live with fear. Some writers cannot deal with the fear, and so they quit or refuse to publish. In order to write, you…

— Patrick Mcmanus

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

— Gore Vidal

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

— A. S. Byatt