Better Quote by June Brown

Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper,…

— Ina Coolbrith

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress…

— Gideon Defoe

I always want to write something better than the last book.

— Tracy Kidder

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

— Thomas Perry

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

— Nora Roberts

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

— Tryon Edwards

I think my writing has become "cleaner."

— Jodi Picoult