Book Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

— Jean De La Bruyere

I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book.

— Navya Nair

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

— Brian Tracy

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One…

— Carl Sagan

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no…

— Cyril Connolly

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

— David Macaulay

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

— V. S. Naipaul

People do write books.

— Kevin Pietersen

I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a book.

— Eva Gutowski

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating…

— Gary Ross