Book Quote by Walter Benjamin

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books…

— Walter Benjamin

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort…

— Dan Poynter

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener

Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people…

— Scott Spencer

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write…

— Deb Caletti

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

“People who write novels only write them when they have very little else to write”

— David Markson

I see a lot of writers who complain when their book doesn't sell and the reason that happens sometimes, is they don't know how…

— Kevin Sampsell

Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works…

— Stephen King

People do write books.

— Kevin Pietersen

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann