Book Quote by Mark Twain

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

— Jane Gardam

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't…

— Michael Crichton

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

— Steve Earle

The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense…

— Russell Banks

You told us over and over that you don’t think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you’d probably die before…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

— Glen Duncan

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

— Victor Hugo

“Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just write for joy. Send your current one…

— Welwyn Wilton Katz

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

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting…

— Daphne du Maurier