Book Quote by Isaac Asimov

I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions…

— Kim Harrison

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

— Dennis Green

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov

It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and I tore…

— Karan Mahajan

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

— Lloyd Alexander

Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper,…

— Ina Coolbrith

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

— Margaret Drabble

I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are just like…

— Kameron Hurley

I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began…

— Harper Lee

I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything…

— Jonathan Coe

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell