Baby Quote by Evelyn Waugh

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

— George Bernard Shaw

Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything…

— Harry Crews

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

— Norman Mailer

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

— Janette Rallison

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

— Marcus Garvey

It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but…

— Jackie Collins

“...if he can write a book at all, a writer cannot do it by peeping over his shoulder at somebody else, any more than…

— James M. Cain

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love…

— Siri Hustvedt

“The spouses of authors ought to really read their better halves books. What is found amidst those pages may enlighten them to knowing a…

— Sai Marie Johnson

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

— Benjamin Jowett

“Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.”

— M.F. Moonzajer