Books Quote by Fred Allen

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

— Fred Allen

“Why would a guy spend five years writing a book when he can buy one for ten bucks?”

— Richard Johnson

“It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars…

— Mordecai Richler

“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.”

— Jay Taylor

“Stop trying to write a novel. Just tell a story, type it up, 1 hour every day, and by the end of the year,…

— Ksenia Anske

“Writing a novel is like running a marathon. Selling one is like building a castle. You gotta do it one brick at a time.”

— Charles R. Hall

“Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.”

— Ellie Ann

“There is a heavy price to pay for writing a bad book.”

— Tony Burgess

“To be able to write a novel you have to be willing to fall out of life for 1 year and not let anyone…

— Ksenia Anske

“Write a page a day and you'll have a complete novel in year.”

— Harry Whittington

“How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read.”

— Alain de Botton