Book Quote by Sydney Smith

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

— Holly Black

“You can write the most wonderful book in the world. But if people don’t know about your book they won’t know to buy it.”

— Madi Preda

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

— Huston Smith

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

— Jesse Ball

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

— Maureen Forrester

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it,

— Pliny the Elder

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

— Deb Caletti

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

— Maxwell Perkins

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no…

— Sheri S. Tepper

Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper,…

— Ina Coolbrith

You don't write a book to show off.

— Tony Orlando