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I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus. — Miguel Syjuco

Write a book online or help to write a book to give the Right Shape of the Imagination. Contact ghost writer Jerry Payne. — Jerry Payner

I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books. — Brooke Fraser

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time. — Bret Easton Ellis

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. — Kate DiCamillo

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have? — Matthew Tobin Anderson

Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go. — Mark Billingham

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

Everyone should write a book, if only to see
how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you. — Susan Wallace

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

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book. — Robert Crais

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written. — Tom Clancy

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

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it. — Paulo Coelho

Write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't. — Maggie Stiefvater

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards. — Antony Beevor

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

If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet. — Laurie Halse Anderson

It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control. — Jeff Lemire

When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away. — B.A. Gabrielle

A book is just as magical to write as it is to read, it takes you on a journey that changes you in the end. — Jen Golembiewski

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 write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself. — Joseph Wambaugh

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book. — A.D. Posey

I can't write the same book over and over again ... let it go, once it's gone! — Jane Gardam

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

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it. — Louise Erdrich

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd. — Kevin Spacey

I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. — Robert Dessaix

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 write because the book I want to read has not been written yet. — Richard H.R. Penn

One day, I'd like to write a book about the worst ads ever run, but my fear is that it would be too long. — Seth Godin

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can. — Thomas Perry

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

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. — Judy Blume

Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it — Jason Calder

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book. — Jack Canfield

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it. — Denise Mina

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. — Edward Abbey

I decided to write the book I wanted to read — David A. Lottes

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

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

One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting. — Jimmy Demaret

The way to write a book is the application of the seat of one's pants to the seat of one's chair — J.B. Priestley

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration. — Gillian Cross

You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer. — Robin Sacredfire

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff. — Robert Hunter

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

A man who would write the same book twice could not even write it once. — George Orwell

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

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. — Aldous Huxley

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf. — Marlee Matlin

my heart woke me crying last night how can i help i begged my heart said write the book — Rupi Kaur

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me. — Michel Foucault

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world. — Natan Sharansky

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again. — Robert Crais

Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. — Maggie Stiefvater

Please read the book slowly because it took me a long time to write. — A.W. Rock

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write. — Rick Riordan

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published. — Cynthia Kadohata

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them. — Mark Haddon

Shoot the bitch and write a book. That's what I did. — William S. Burroughs

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence. — Gregory Maguire

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent. — Darrell Hammond

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

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. — Clarence Darrow

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

It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject. — Michael Lewis

I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time. — Charlaine Harris

Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book. — Gabby Douglas

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

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

Our original idea was to write a book titled Fifty Shades of the Hunger Games, by J.K. Rowling with Stephen King: A John Grisham Novel. — Dave Barry

Hmm,' said the King. 'I must write that down in my book of aphorisms. I don't know if it is deep, but it sounds deep. — Stephen Mitchell

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

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. — Samuel Beckett

I always have the impression that I write the same book. — Patrick Modiano

I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time. — John Boyne

When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it. — Martha Grimes

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

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work. — Jonathan Galassi

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. — J.D. Salinger

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

Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures. — Katherine Paterson

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child. — George Konrad

If you can't find the book you want to read, write it. — William Muller

Write the book you'd want to read. — Martha Stewart

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books. — Richard Scarry

The idea to write this book hit me like a bad analogy. — Special Snowflake

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one. — Andre Gide

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

The only way to write a book, I'm fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That's how you write a book. — Anne Enright

It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again. — George R R Martin

My next option is to only write a list of the books I like, but then again, I don't read a book I don't like so it doesn't solve any of my problems. — Genesis Quihuis

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

You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness. — Cullen Bunn

I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things. — Phil Klay

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