Book Quote by Virginia Woolf

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

— Carmen Agra Deedy

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over…

— Dani Shapiro

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting…

— Daphne du Maurier

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

— Julian Barnes

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

— Gore Vidal

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise…

— David Guterson

What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this…

— Emile M. Cioran

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves,…

— Franz Kafka

“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has…

— Frank Bruni

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

— Jean Rostand