The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it

There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word

I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one