I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes... →
Joan Didion
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a... →
I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited... →
My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most... →
Vin Diesel
I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book.
Trent Dilfer
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel... →
Annie Dillard
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project... →
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
Ernest Dimnet