I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating... →
Gary Ross
How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. 'The Awful Aunty' took me 10 days.
Tony Ross
You have to go into rehab after doing a David Walliams book. David is such an important man; publishers rate him very, very highly, His books usually... →
My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being... →
Judith Rossner
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
Philip Roth
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
Veronica Roth
Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from... →
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through... →
Patrick Rothfuss
One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.