Top Writing Books Quotes

Whenever people ask me, "How are your books doing?" or, "How is your book doing?" I just say, "It's okay." I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write,...

Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.

I think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand words and at the end, sum it up in...

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book?

I find it quite intriguing that the one observing me as different, immediately assumes that there's something wrong with me, but never, not even for one instant, questions the possibility of the oppos...

If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more. One other...

The hard part is putting one word after another.

Publish. Be damned. Repeat.

It's not a job but a condition.(Alan Garner on writing)

Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.

I figure whatever I choose to create, I'll be neglecting somebody - so my art may as well make me happy. - Audrey Niffenegger

I believe that the secret to becoming successful in life is taking it one step at a time, do not look at the challenge just concentrate on getting through each step at a time, learning from your mista...

People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, comp...

Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature— at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes— is to write anything original. And perhaps the easi...

The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his crowd which inspire the orato...

Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: -(1) an elevated level of general well being w...