Word info

write the book

Verb

Meaning

write the book (third-person singular simple present writes the book, present participle writing the book, simple past wrote the book, past participle written the book)

To be an authoritative expert (on some specified topic).
Do I know how to play chess? I wrote the book on it!

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book. Elvis Costello

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book. Junot Diaz

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written. Dorothy L. Sayers

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find. Carol Shields

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. Louise Brown

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences. Larry Hagman

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