Book Quote by George MacDonald

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

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 Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…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

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

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no…

— Sheri S. Tepper

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Writing a book is not easy.

— Lisa Jewell

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

— Henry David Thoreau

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

— Jaron Lanier

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

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

— Edward Abbey

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

— Douglas Adams