Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
Everybody writes a book too many.