Writing A Book Quotes - Page 12

• I couldn't imagine someone playing me or writing a book about who I am. Although I let people write articles and try and express who I am, and it blows up wildly in my face.

  Jonah Hill

  Book, Writing, Blow

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect.

  Freeman Dyson

  Book, Writing, People

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around the time of the Great Migration, and happen to be black, I'm trying to write a definitive account of the Great Migration, the so-called "black experience." That's not what I'm doing, and it can be frustrating.

  Ayana Mathis

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.

  William Styron

  Book, Writing, Past

  William Styron (1993). “This Quiet Dust and Other Writings”, Vintage

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• When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images—things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.

  China Mieville

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Missing

  "Discworld's Terry Pratchett On Death And Deciding". Interview With Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 11, 2011.

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• If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

  Shereen El Feki

  Book, Writing, Want

  "Sex and the Citadel" by Shereen El Feki, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2013.

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• Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write them in this book. Grab a separate sheet of paper. I didn't spend two and a half weeks writing a book just so you could mark up the pages with your silly ideas for things you can do with a flowerpot. When it comes down to it, what's wrong with a flowerpot not being a flowerpot? Why is nothing ever good enough for you?

  Amy Sedaris

  Silly, Book, Writing

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• I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

  David Bezmozgis

  Book, Writing, Years

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• There's just something "off" about equating the act of spending three years writing a book with the act of someone exploiting themselves by drunkenly flashing the camera for "Girls Gone Wild" or something.

  Marie Calloway

  Girl, Book, Writing

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.

  Don Winslow

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Don Winslow on his amazing new book ‘The Cartel’ and America’s drug war". Interview with Drew Mcweeny, uproxx.com. July 01, 2015.

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• By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.

  Michael Ian Black

  Book, Writing, Hair

  "An Interview With Michael Ian Black: "Oh, There's Plenty Of Bad Reviews On Amazon."". Interview with Jory John, www.buzzfeed.com. March 8, 2014.

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• Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

  Lillian Hellman

  Book, Writing, Thinker

  Lillian Hellman (1971). “The collected plays”, Little Brown and Company

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• The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Writing, Men

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• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Book, Writing, Feels

  "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  Walter Matthau

  Book, Writing, Together

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• I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Summer, New York, Book

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• The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

  Art Buchwald

  Party, Book, Writing

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• It's great to be excited by your profession, whether you are a doctor or a writer. I started writing books when I was in medical school and, by the time I graduated, I realized that writing was more exciting to me than being a doctor. And if I tried to be a doctor and a writer, then both would suffer.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Writing, School

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• I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Book, Writing, Suffering

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• In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.

  Evelyn Lau

  Book, Writing, People

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• Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no good. It can even be done algorithmically. Writing is process-intensive activity.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Book, Writing, Night

  "Interview: Guy Kawasaki on Reciprocity, Influencers, Ecosystems and the Art of Enchantment Read more at https://www.business2community.com/social-media/interview-guy-kawasaki-on-reciprocity-influencers-ecosystems-and-the-art-of-enchantment-019571". Interview with Ian Greenleigh, www.business2community.com. March 17, 2011.

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• But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Taken, Writing

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• The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Book, Writing, Special

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