Accomplish Quote by Lucy Corin

I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a book. I…

— Jane Jacobs

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word…

— Kate Forsyth

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that.…

— Vikram Seth

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

— Ruth Ozeki

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of reading I…

— Elif Batuman

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han