I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens. Votes: 4
Meg RosoffI have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. Votes: 3
Richard BrautiganI have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say. Votes: 3
Andrew BreitbartWhen you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read. Votes: 3
Jay AsherPeople generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book. Votes: 3
Neil deGrasse TysonShe can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book. Votes: 3
Liam GallagherPeople say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful! Votes: 3
Pattie BoydI can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me. Votes: 3
Walter RaleighI would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side. Votes: 3
John GimletteI've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack. Votes: 3
John le CarreThe definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book Votes: 3
Holly LisleI think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication. Votes: 3
Edwidge DanticatI never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it. Votes: 3
Billy Bob ThorntonSome people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year. Votes: 3
David BaldacciI wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me. Votes: 3
John KlugeI swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for. Votes: 3
Rebecca WellsDo you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book. Votes: 3
Patricia Reilly GiffSomeday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. Votes: 3
Clarence DarrowRings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it. Votes: 3
Terry PratchettI've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time. Votes: 3
Stephen MalkmusI'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever. Votes: 3
David CrabbI'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated. Votes: 3
Elizabeth WurtzelWhoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child Votes: 3
Nachman of BreslovWhen I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?" Votes: 3
Wayne DyerWhen a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum. Votes: 3
Anthony TrollopeI knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too. Votes: 3
Michael ShowalterI write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that. Votes: 3
Grace CavalieriMay God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal! Votes: 3
Kate DiCamilloI think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive. Votes: 3
Norma McCorveyI was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969. Votes: 3
Jilly CooperIt's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book? Votes: 3
Lee ChildBut how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell! Votes: 3
Robert MusilAny fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house. Votes: 3
Charles Fletcher LummisDon't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book. Votes: 3
Lois WyseIf I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one. Votes: 3
Colin FirthI was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me. Votes: 3
DJ KhaledIf i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry. Votes: 3
Misha CollinsIf somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. Votes: 2
Umberto EcoI don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. Votes: 0
Erin MorgensternWrite the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. Votes: 0
Maggie StiefvaterEach book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write. Votes: 0
Jean M. AuelEach time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier. Votes: 0
Sarah DessenI am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. Votes: 0
Hilaire BellocI had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book. Votes: 0
Jenny LawsonEvery time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different. Votes: 0
Lauren MyracleI believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception. Votes: 0
Charlaine HarrisHere's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write. Votes: 0
Seth GodinIt was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. Votes: 0
Ray BradburySometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself. Votes: 0
Ann PatchettNothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book. Votes: 0
Brandon SandersonWhen Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody. Votes: 0
Fran LebowitzWith each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one. Votes: 0
Andre GideI either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels. Votes: 0
Ava GardnerWrite the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it. Votes: 0
J. A. KonrathI've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure. Votes: 0
Lois McMaster BujoldHow long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyWith the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character. Votes: 0
Olivia MunnYou could write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it, it is nothing Votes: 0
Brandon Reece TaylorI have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineIn the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written. Votes: 0
Salman RushdieI write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one. Votes: 0
Farley MowatThe outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part. Votes: 0
Jeffery DeaverI wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at. Votes: 0
Kate AdieI wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. Votes: 0
Francis Ford CoppolaI'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women. Votes: 0
Jim CraceBook of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help Votes: 0
Donald MillerThere's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is. Votes: 0
Dean KoontzI'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books. Votes: 0
Brooke FraserI have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write. Votes: 0
Jennifer RoweIt's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places. Votes: 0
Joan DidionEveryone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read. Votes: 0
Chuck MiceliThe Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would. Votes: 0
Lewis Sperry ChaferI want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. Votes: 0
Robert DessaixYou must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book Votes: 0
Emily GoworEvery author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldThere is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book. Votes: 0
Asne SeierstadWhoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever. Votes: 0
Roberto CalviIf there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Votes: 0
Toni MorrisonYou think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. Votes: 0
J. D. SalingerI think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on. Votes: 0
Philip RothI can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Votes: 0
Ann Patchett