Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

Patricia Reilly Giff

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

Rachel Field

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Sophie Hannah

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Stieg Larsson

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

Sara Paretsky

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

Scott Turow

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.

Thomas P. Campbell

I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.

Ted Danson

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

Kent Haruf

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.

Lisa Whelchel

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

Michael Bassey Johnson

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

Shannon L. Alder

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

Mattie Stepanek

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

Erin Morgenstern

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

Natan Sharansky

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.

Ashwin Sanghi

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Anne Rice

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.

Peter Sotos

In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.

Susan Minot