Books Quote by Irvine Welsh

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the…

— Paul Theroux

I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.

— Frances Harper

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as…

— Virginia Woolf

It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a short story.…

— Lorin Stein

“People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and…

— Muriel Spark

People do write books.

— Kevin Pietersen

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

— Fred Allen

People think writing is a very distinguished, cerebral thing, where all you do is write. It doesn't work that way. People have to see…

— Ravi Subramanian

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write…

— Len Deighton

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett