Book Quote by Harshvardhan Rane

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I…

— Chris Kyle

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough…

— Ian Rankin

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed…

— Amy Purdy

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

— Philip Roth

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

— Amy Purdy

I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined…

— Alice Mattison

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK…

— Charles Todd

I really don't think I have lived my life as an open book.

— Archie Manning

All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

— Gillian Cross