Book Quote by Nick Laird

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

“A book is finished when it does not want me to work on it any longer...it reaches a point when it feels like it…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

“Because that’s what a book is: a letter from a writer to a reader. It’s connection. Something that reaches across the divides of time…

— Chris Harrison

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

— George MacDonald

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

— David Mitchell

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may…

— Goldie Hawn

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

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

— Hosea Ballou

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

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Just like so many things in life, the secret to writing a book is just sticking with it. Put in the time and eventually…

— Jeffrey Littorno