Book Quote by Melissa Harris-Perry

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could…

— Ramona Koval

I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you…

— Orhan Pamuk

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy…

— Matthew Reilly

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

— Alice Hoffman

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 often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you don't happen…

— Eoin Colfer

Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you…

— Grace Paley

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

— Stephen Malkmus

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

— Francine Prose

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except…

— Carl Sagan