Bits and pieces Quote by Karan Mahajan

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always…

— Joan Didion

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad…

— Thomas L. Dumm

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when…

— Anna Quindlen

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,…

— Ernest Hemingway

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then…

— Ellen DeGeneres

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

— Anonymous

I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.

— Colin Wilson

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

— Thomas Perry

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

— Anne Lamott

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

— Vikas Swarup

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

— Emeli Sande