Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

Jean M. Auel

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

Don Rickles

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

Emile M. Cioran

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Barbara Kingsolver

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

Barbara Mertz

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Bette Midler

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Jean Rostand

Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.

Joshua Rogers

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

Dave Eggers

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

Jeffery Deaver

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

James Gleick

I will write another book if I feel like it.

James Herriot

I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that.

Jody Hill

And I go home having lost her love. And write this book.

Jack Kerouac

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

Lauren Myracle

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

Sarah Dessen

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Samuel Johnson

Jack Ryan: I'm not an agent, I just write books for the CIA.

The Hunt for Red October

When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.

John Logan

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.

Clifford Geertz

I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. I love to sing.

Mary Mouser