Book Quote by Jimmy Barnes

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if…

— George Orwell

Writing about my life was a 13-year process where I had to face my demons as I wrote and take the time to understand…

— Dominique Jackson

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

— Marco Roth

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know,…

— Blake Crouch

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in…

— William Goldman

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here today, because…

— C.E. Morgan

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of…

— Caroline Leavitt

I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them.…

— Margaret Atwood

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish…

— Marc Acito