Agony Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would be…

— Zora Neale Hurston

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong…

— China Mieville

Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get…

— Richard Bach

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

— Judy Blume

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 Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…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

When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and…

— Robin McKinley

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

Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no…

— Samuel Johnson

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut

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

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf