Abyss Quote by Ethan Canin

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that…

— Ashly Lorenzana

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

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

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

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

— George MacDonald

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't…

— Michael Crichton

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing…

— Garth Nix

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the…

— George Saunders