Book Quote by Joel Dicker

Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

— Joel Dicker

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

— Julian Barnes

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer…

— William Saroyan

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good…

— Patrick deWitt

“Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated, and taken…

— Carl Henegan

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us…

— Helene Cixous

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long,…

— George Orwell

I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question.…

— Chris Abani

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

— A. S. Byatt

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

— Mason Cooley