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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

Only write a story that only you can write. — Alysha Speer

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

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. — Lynn Abbey

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

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write. — Lurlene McDaniel

A book lives a new life every time it is read. — Brandon Sanderson

You're writing someone's 'future' favorite book. — M. Kirin

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again. — Daphne Du Maurier

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

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album. — John Green

My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it. — Writer's Digest Books

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

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

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

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties. — Art Buchwald

I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic. — Larry Winget

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write. — Ingrid Bengis

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

Great books make a great life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories. — Christine Feehan

Love how editing makes you more confident with your book ...but also makes you want to set it on fire at the same time. — Kira Hawke

Wisdom is in books, ... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing. — Dan Brown

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write. — Karen Thompson Walker

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure. — Lois McMaster Bujold

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book. — Aditi Dufare

Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry. — Ellie Rose McKee

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

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people. — George Noory

The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity — Bernard Kelvin Clive

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

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

Don't ever trust anyone who's writing a book. They make up lies for a living. — Rosemary Clement-Moore

Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned. — Michelle Paver

A good book is not the same as a successful one. — Johnny Rich

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

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own — Marilyn Vos Savant

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

There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished. — Claire Wingfield

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Your mind is a book; God is the pen. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses. — Fennel Hudson

I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book you can write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My new book is going well. It's practically writing itself! Actually, what I mean is I'm not writing it, my clone is. — Jarod Kintz

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors. — James Rollins

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

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult. — Kate Christensen

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

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner. — Sam Horn

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. — Isaac Asimov

I am writing this book for people like me -- the person I was ten years ago. — Michelle Alexander

Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what have you done but nobody else does."
~Madi Preda — Madi Preda

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

[...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic — Ben Oliveira

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.
Even when you're the one writing it. — Julie Wright

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that. — Zephyr Teachout

Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day. — Betty Dravis

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

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious. — Criss Jami

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

If you don't write, then read. — Sylvia L'Namira

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing. — Jhumpa Lahiri

A book consist of thoughts that for a moment don't mind holding hands. — Garry Fitchett

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book. — Wally Lamb

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard. — David Walliams

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. — John Hodgman

I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing. — Richard Donner

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out! — Carmen DeSousa

Everyday we are writing a page in a book we call life. So write it better, write it with love. — Debasish Mridha

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

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto. — Susie Bright

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

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you. — Terry Tempest Williams

I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me! — Zach Galifianakis

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

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time. — Rosellen Brown

Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements. — Guy Kawasaki

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

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. — Kathryn Joyce

I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did. — Carla H. Krueger

Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book. — Brandon Sanderson

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

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. — Oscar Wilde

Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. — Norman Macleod