Book Quote by Rutger Bregman

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

— Christopher Hitchens

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

— Kevin Powers

I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

— Paul Auster

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first…

— Carl Sandburg

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

— Robert Motherwell

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's…

— Robert Sheckley