Book Quote by Lucie Brock-Broido

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

— Philip Roth

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I…

— Augusten Burroughs

I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and…

— Charlaine Harris

I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the amount of…

— Lauren Groff

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last…

— Peter Sotos

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want…

— Karen Thompson Walker

One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.

— Andrew Latimer

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis

What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this…

— Emile M. Cioran

I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.

— Leandra Medine