Book Quote by Jilly Cooper

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

— Kate Morton

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

— Elizabeth Strout

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid,

— Carl Hiaasen

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

— Justine Bateman

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

— Sara Sheridan

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

— Augusten Burroughs

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it…

— Jon Spaihts

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

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

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

— Grace Slick

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I really didn't write it with any intention of being published. If I'd known that was going to happen, I would have written something…

— Gideon Defoe