Book Quote by James Boswell

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

— Etel Adnan

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book…

— Herman Koch

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

I've been approached a few times to write a book, but it's always a concept or a plan that I've not actually done myself.

— Gemma Atkinson

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to…

— Samuel Johnson

I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.

— Greg Behrendt

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

— Daphne Gottlieb

I've tried digital planners and fancy planners and date books galore, but my tried and true is actually just a large spiral-bound notebook.

— Rachel Hollis

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Going forward, I have four different ways of approaching what I want to do - I can generate my own material by writing. I…

— Noah Wyle