Book writing Quote by iJustine

Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people…

— Scott Spencer

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on…

— Anonymous

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control…

— Nicholas Meyer

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the…

— Philip Pullman

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

— Stephen Ambrose

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

— Jay Asher

People who can write a book usually do.

— Jilly Cooper

Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like…

— Mary Pilon

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

— Scott Pelley

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be…

— David Karp