Answers Quote by May Sarton

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

— Samuel Butler

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

— Anonymous

I've never written a book before.

— Keith Emerson

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

— Linda Tripp

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

— Geraint Thomas

I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

— Delmore Schwartz

I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished,…

— James Branch Cabell

If somebody says that they want to write a book but do not know what to write about, they will never write a book.

— Ravi Subramanian

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

— Julius Lester

I'm not really a book person, to be honest.

— Jesse Lingard

I never answer, because I can't, which is my favorite among my own books.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'

— Claire Messud