Belong Quote by Gillian Flynn

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have…

— Ludwig Bemelmans

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

— Catherine Mayer

You can't write my types of books without hurting someone.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got…

— Mark Haddon

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

When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to…

— Karan Mahajan

If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.

— Jennifer Egan

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

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

I've long believed that the work-out life has lessons for the writing life. I've 'solved' a lot of books while at the gym, in…

— Laura Lippman

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some…

— Maria Mitchell

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad…

— Thomas L. Dumm