Book Quote by Ruth Stout

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett

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

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when…

— Richard Scarry

“No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

— Alexander Pope

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote…

— Jim Gaffigan

“I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a…

— Nick Hornby

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You…

— Anonymous

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens…

— John Green

“Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.”

— A.N.L. Munby

My job is to entertain the readers in such a manner that, when they reach the end of the book, they feel like they've…

— Clive Cussler