Book Quote by Robert Asprin

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Stephen Collins

Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

— Mark Helprin

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged…

— John Scott

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard…

— Sandra Brown

I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had…

— Ted Dekker

My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until…

— Lisa Jewell

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to…

— Lee Child

On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where…

— R. A. Salvatore

I was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good,…

— Catherine Jinks

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and…

— Erica Jong

“Remember this, if you have written a couple dozen short stories and sold them to national markets, the chances are you know as much…

— William Campbell Gault