Books Quote by Emile M. Cioran

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

— Clive Barker

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

— Henry Miller

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

— William H. Gass

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to.…

— Louise Erdrich

The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.

— Anne Enright

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

— Neil Gaiman

When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in…

— Steven Pressfield

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so…

— Joe Haldeman

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa