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Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. — John F. Kennedy

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness. — Charles Darwin

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books. — Francine Prose

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written. — Salman Rushdie

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book. — Tony Ardizzone

Happy 3rd anniversary Navigating Life's Roadways!
This book is a charge and blessing from above.
Writing it has been on my radar for a while. — Deborah L. Parker

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different. — Carla H. Krueger

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds. — Kilroy J. Oldster

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again. — Ruth Ozeki

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it. — Billy Bob Thornton

Writing a book is like dating. It's exciting. It's dreamy. And after four years, I just want to end it. — Carole Radziwill

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall

When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it. — Lauren Conrad

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke. — Jory John

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity. — Herbert C. Brown

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan. — Noah Hawley

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it. — Sherry Thomas

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally. — Gary Gygax

As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate. — Leigh Steinberg

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. — Anthony Storr

What you read when you don't have to ... — Oscar Wilde

Getting an idea is not enough.
But when you get two ideas, and they collide and have a bastard love child, that's when true stories are born. — Johan M. Dahlgren

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book ... on my computer! — Meg Cabot

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book. — Kent Haruf

Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part. — Jay Taylor

All the technologies mentioned and described in this book either existed at the time of its writing or were being developed in a clandestine way. — Pulkit Ahuja

I've reached that final moment of editing a book - the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in the face. — Richard Due

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book. — Hilary Duff

If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. — Josh Lieb

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. — Vladimir Nabokov

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work. — Gail Simone

Most books I write because I realize there's a book sized hole in the universe and I want to fill it. — Neil Gaiman

Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better. — Buffy Andrews

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human. — Shirley Knight

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write. — Jim Lewis

Life is like a book written with lots of surprises,
Spell it wrongly and you'll be spilled otherwise. — Ana Claudia Antunes

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different. — Josh Lieb

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy. — Clive Barker

If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass. — Fran Lebowitz

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me. — Chuck Klosterman

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest. — Stephen King

There is something wrong with the world if I'm writing a book outside and people think I'm planning an attack due to my skin color. — Daniel Marques

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. — A.S. Byatt

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul. — Ignazio Silone

If a book falls open in a library and no one sees it, is it still writing? Or is it simply a page bearing abstract markings? — Zanesh Catkin

I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it. — Ann Coulter

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me. — Bill Hicks

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. — Rex Stout

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. — H.L. Mencken

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer. — Kimberly Willis Holt

I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book. — Elvis Costello

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message. — Les Parrott

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku. — Mem Fox

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less! — Tracy Chevalier

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing. — Elmore Leonard

After publishing a book, start writing the next. And repeat. Don't get hung up on overmarketing the books, focus more on getting more books out there — Crissi Langwell

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He was soft and slow, gentle and attentive. Possessive. — Penelope Douglas

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better. — Nicholaa Spencer

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty. — John Vianney

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid ... initially and my own stories. — Peter Morgan

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book. — Rick Bragg

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris

Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. — Mary Garden

Guys didn't like their cars messed with. And I didn't like being messed with, so I guessed we were even. — Penelope Douglas

These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally. — Rush Limbaugh

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication. — Edwidge Danticat

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. — James Boswell

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book? — Guy Kawasaki

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. — Norman Mailer

You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it. — Geraldine Solon

Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book. — Magus Tor

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons! — Charles M. Schulz

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance. — John Entwistle

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story. — Rebecca Skloot

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs. — Judith Hill

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore. — Stanley Williams

Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don't fall. — Henry Mosquera

The thing I've learned writing my book is that everyone has the potential to be a poet, and all of our lives are epic. — Jonathan Heatt

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay. — Rivers Cuomo

I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms. — Ryan Lilly

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping. — Jeanette Winterson

Writing a book is like washing an elephant. You don't know from where you should start and where you should end. — Yashvardhan Shukla

Sometimes you have no idea what you are you doing, but you just do it anyways. And that can be a good thing — Anita Babic

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished. — Baron De Montesquieu

Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can. — S.A. Tawks

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it. — Barbara Kingsolver

Love is a book and a light to read it by. — Peter Hubbard

Times are really bad. Everyone is writing a book and quoting themselves. — Omar Kiam

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. — Madeleine L'Engle

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person. — Nicole Krauss

An author's strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher's commitment to it. — Sterling Lord

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. — Edward Abbey

And I think: I could do this. Fuck writing a book about a fat girl and a dragon. I could be a music journalist, instead. — Caitlin Moran