Book Quote by Orison Swett Marden

Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

— Scott Turow

Books are for nothing but to inspire

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

— Marguerite Young

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the…

— E. L. Doctorow

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

— Len Deighton

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

— Junot Diaz

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even…

— Robin S. Sharma

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of…

— Lois Lowry

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson