Book Quote by James Ellroy

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

— Samuel Butler

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.

— Sara Gruen

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

— Walter Mosley

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.

— Nick Laird

One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's…

— Lauren Oliver

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you…

— Berry Gordy

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

— Zygmunt Bauman

Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and…

— Stephen Dobyns

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

— Amy Harmon

Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me,…

— Sandra Cisneros

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

— David Macaulay