Believe Quote by Len Deighton

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett

People do write books.

— Kevin Pietersen

Why don't you write books people can read?

— Nora Joyce

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You…

— Anonymous

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

“People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and…

— Muriel Spark

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

— Michael Ian Black

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

— David Macaulay

“To the people who insist they really do have a great idea but they just can't write, I'd say that given some of the…

— Iain Banks

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

— John Hodgman

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

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

— Philip Roth