Book Quote by Ernest Hemingway

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

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

— H. L. Mencken

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

— Joseph O'Neill

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers…

— Amos Oz

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

— George Carlin

“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

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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 Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…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

Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.

— Tara Westover

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.

— Charlie Huston