Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

Megan McCafferty

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Dirk Benedict

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

Donald Ray Pollock

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

Stephen Rea

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

William Landay

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

Katherine Paterson

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

Robert Gottlieb

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

Sara Shepard

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

Michael Morpurgo

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

B.o.B

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

bell hooks

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Gillian Cross

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

Cynthia Kadohata

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Claire Tomalin

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

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

Jilly Cooper

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

David Sedaris

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

Don Winslow