Book Quote by Jean Rostand

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

— Tom Robbins

Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get…

— Richard Bach

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that…

— John Hodgman

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

— Charles Wright

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

— George Pelecanos

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise…

— David Guterson

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

— Edmund Wilson

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another…

— George R. R. Martin

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

— John Gregory Dunne

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

— Mark Millar