Book Quote by H. L. Mencken

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

— Justin Halpern

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

— A. S. Byatt

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that…

— Ashly Lorenzana

A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even…

— Augusten Burroughs

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're…

— Fannie Hurst

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good…

— Patrick deWitt

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have…

— Iris Murdoch