Book Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may…

— Goldie Hawn

There were books all over the house, and I was always told that I could write and that it was something good to do.…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

— Alexandra Bracken

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

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it…

— Yann Martel

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you…

— Berry Gordy

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no…

— George Bernard Shaw

Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.

— Clive Cussler

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's…

— Leslie Jamison