Books Quote by Robert Byrne

No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

— Ed Byrne

“Writing books is a suicidal profession. No other demands as much time, as much work, as much dedication, by comparison with its immediate benefits.…

— Gerald Martin

“I couldn't see killing myself if I had a book that was only half-read: Fountainhead, Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,…

— Michael Anthony

Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness of writing.…

— Kobo Abe

I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers…

— Amos Oz

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best…

— Karl Kraus

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

— Justin Halpern

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

— Herman Wouk

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad…

— Thomas L. Dumm