Book Quote by Mark Twain

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“It seems important to me that beginning writers ponder this—that since 1964, I have never had a book, story or poem rejected that was…

— Joseph Hansen

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get…

— Richard Bach

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

— Alice Hoffman

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

— George MacDonald

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long,…

— George Orwell

Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by…

— Lafcadio Hearn

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

— Tom Clancy