Book Quote by Robertson Davies

I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting?

— Hilton Als

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

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

— Justin Halpern

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that…

— Ashly Lorenzana

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in…

— Charles Bukowski

I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where…

— Deb Caletti

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

— Asne Seierstad

I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot…

— Scarface

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 running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

— Catherine Mayer