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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
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
O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.
— Herbert C. Brown
Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.
— Sherry Thomas
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
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 once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.
— Jay Taylor
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
