„Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does“

— Groucho Marx

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„One half of the people of this Nation today are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write a new and just one.“
— Susan B. Anthony
„As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.“
— Agatha Christie