Patricia Highsmith Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length of time it takes to write a book, the publisher and the readers can and will come later.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment

  Patricia Highsmith

  Book, Pay, Fool

• And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Dream, Art, Book

• Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Book, Writing, Argument

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