Fifty Quote by Jerry Pinkney

People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're…

— Barry Lopez

When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to…

— Karan Mahajan

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it…

— Iain Sinclair

I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

— Alexandra Bracken

“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire…

— John Updike

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

— William H. Gass

“If my life were a book, I would have masking tape holding my hinges together. My pages would be loose, my edges tattered and…

— Kate Carlisle

Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back…

— Jack Gantos

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

— Alexandra Fuller

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

— Richard Hell

I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting?

— Hilton Als

“Books might be your passion but you can’t fuck a paperback.”

— Alexandra Potter