Book Quote by Kate Adie

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may…

— Goldie Hawn

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

— Kate Morton

Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

— George Pelecanos

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 decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

— Terry Bradshaw

I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.

— Chris Pavone

I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the…

— James Frey

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel.…

— Anne Tyler

I wrote about what I was going through at the time.

— Avril Lavigne

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman