Book Quote by Flann O'Brien

My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to…

— Simon Hoggart

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

— Joyce Johnson

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut

I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

— Dave Barry

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even…

— Cynthia Ozick

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to…

— Jon McGregor

Most books about Stanley Kubrick were written by people who never met him and gathered information from articles written by others who didn't know…

— Jan Harlan

I didn't want to write a book as Stephen King's son, because all I did was get born, and that's not much of an…

— Owen King

“The Book of Kells is the kingdom of Proteus. It is the product of a cold-blooded hallucination that did not require any mescaline or…

— Liberato Santoro-Brienza

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast…

— Michel de Montaigne