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The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. — John Steinbeck

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

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

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

Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers. — Luke Taylor

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers. — Harvey Pekar

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

Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book. — Nicholaa Spencer

There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all. — Jo Linsdell

The reader wants to be able to see the book as if they are watching a movie. — LaQuita Cameron

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book. — James J. Kilpatrick

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams. — Nenia Campbell

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life. — Christopher Isherwood

Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start. — Jo Linsdell

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do. — Robyn Davidson

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book. — Rob Bignell, Editor

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

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world. — Joanna Trollope

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

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it — Karl Popper

My book sales make 'real writers' possible. — Jennifer Weiner

The Banff Mountain [Book] Festival attracts this huge number of travel writers. Whereas when I go to literary festivals ... — John Gimlette

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening? — Lawrence M. Krauss

Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread. — Mark W. Boyer

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. — Louis Dudek

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

All writers believe in the magic of books; Jim Hines has created a system where that magic becomes real, usable, and very definitely not always safe. — Tanya Huff

It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you — Robin Sacredfire

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. — Len Deighton

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. — E.L. Doctorow

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.' — Amelie Nothomb

Every book I've read appears in my writing. — Rob Bignell, Editor

There's a side to all writers that loves nothing better than a book, a big chair, a window. — Gillian Clarke

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book. — Junot Diaz

Every time someone opens a book and begins to read, a synergy between the reader and the writer occurs across time and space. — Jeanette O'Hagan

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me. — Betsy Byars

It takes thirty-three days to write a book
only thirty-three days. remember, writers lie for a living. — Darynda Jones

A book is like a trip to a world of imagination and creativity, and those who don't read will for ever stay in the same place. — Dulce Rodrigues

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them. — Michael Ian Black

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. — Louise Brown

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee. — Ryan Lilly

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that. — Charlaine Harris

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"

"My favorite character died. — Joyce Rachelle

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. — Nikki Giovanni

Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars. — Chad Harbach

Not every classic book was the best thing ever. Each book has flaws, and it's up to writers to change things. — Tim Holtorf

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book. — Andrew Sean Greer

Thoughts don't have time and space, one need to hold them. The one who succeeds at them becomes a writer. — Santosh Avvannavar

I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to. — Avijeet Das

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand. — Carla H. Krueger

Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far. — Thomas Perry

A good reader has the power to move the world. — Aman Jassal

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check. — Kurt Vonnegut

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
- Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library — Phillip Lopate

You will need seed money, so begin saving for your book. Don't give up. Also, write down the ideas that you have right away so you don't lose them. — Soraya Diase Coffelt

If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed. — Don Roff

Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater. — Sandra Cisneros

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game. — Margaret Atwood

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. — Eudora Welty

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

People can't read a book if they don't know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published. — Jo Linsdell

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

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does — Groucho Marx

Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers. — Joanne Kraft

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. — David Remnick

The strength of your book is your conflict. For many writers that sentence should read, "The strength of your book is your villain." How — Debra Dixon

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book. — Daniel Ionson

The best gift you can give me is a book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. — James A. Michener

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

But the book! The siren song of the book! — Ellen Douglas

It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer. — Tarang Sinha

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. — Paul Auster

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children. — Elizabeth Bowen

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block. — Ryan Lilly

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book — Johnny Rich

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

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

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book. — Andre Dubus III

Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so. — Christopher B. Krebs

You deserve good sperm. You've waited a long time. — Buffy Andrews

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books. — Dan Chaon

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

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read. — Ann Marie Frohoff

Now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a book? — Dan Savage

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

People have told me, "Go write your book," and I said, "OK. — Millicent Ashby

If you write a bad book, mobs do not show up with pitchforks and torches - and odds are you didn't write something bad. — Dan Alatorre

A writer observes you far sharply than others and therefore you find your traits in a book. — Arvind Parashar

Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own. — Jim Crace

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