Book Quote by Maya Angelou

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's…

— Brooklyn Hudson

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

“To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

You can just start writing, but you're gonna go off on 10 or 12 starts and weird tangents, and yeah you'll have those pages…

— Shane Black

I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.

— Kameron Hurley

If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it.

— Shel Silverstein

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

— Laverne Cox

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

— Catherine Mayer

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would…

— Ingrid Bengis