Army Quote by Mel Torme

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

— Stephen Collins

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be…

— Agnes Repplier

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

— Padgett Powell

“A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but fairly of…

— Thomas Jefferson

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine.…

— Pam Houston

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

— Greg Iles

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

— Bruce Jackson

It takes a long time to publish a book.

— Kenneth Koch

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story…

— Ben Okri

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

— Kate Atkinson

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary…

— Bill Bryson