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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
Only write a story that only you can write.
— Alysha Speer
It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.
— Douglas Adams
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
— William Gibson
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
I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.
— Stephen Hawking
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
— Toni Morrison
A book lives a new life every time it is read.
— Brandon Sanderson
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 don't know how to write a children's book.
— Maurice Sendak
I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
— Ahmet Zappa
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
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
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 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
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 once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
— Ambrose Bierce
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
It would be wonderful, she thought, to write a book which would help other people.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses.
— Fennel Hudson
Your mind is a book; God is the pen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
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
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
— Marilyn Vos Savant
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 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
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 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 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
Love is a book and a light to read it by.
— Peter Hubbard
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
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
A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
— Nicholaa Spencer
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
— Carl Hiaasen
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
— Gertrude Stein
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
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
— William H Gass
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
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
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
— Edward Abbey
Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks like a story.
— Ksenia Anske
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
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
— James A. Michener
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
— George Pelecanos
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
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
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
— Norman Macleod
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
~Madi Preda — Madi Preda
[...] 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
Even when you're the one writing it. — Julie Wright
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
We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.
— Kathryn Joyce
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
— Charles Stross
I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
— David Walliams
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
[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.
— Rosellen Brown
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
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
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 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
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
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
A good book is not the same as a successful one.
— Johnny Rich
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
— Mary Garden
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
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
I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!
— Zach Galifianakis
Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!
— Carmen DeSousa