Writing A Book Quotes - Page 4

• I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.

  Monica Ali

  Jobs, Real, Book

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• The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

  Berry Gordy

  Book, Writing, People

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• There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Real, Book, Writing

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• Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

  Stephen Collins

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

  Jack Kent Cooke

  Book, Writing

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• But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

  George MacDonald

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1227, e-artnow

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• If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.

  Lucy Corin

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I just can't fathom tweeting, and I'd rather spend my time writing a book than a blog, but I rather grudgingly agreed to a Facebook page. I had a brief, intense romance with Facebook. It's weirdly addictive, but anything that time-sucking is a danger for a writer who writes as slowly as I do. Now I post only occasionally and nothing very confessional. I think I'm carbon dating myself as I speak.

  Debra Dean

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.

  Elizabeth Neel

  Book, Writing, School

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

  Jeff Kinney

  Children, Book, Writing

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• When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Writing, World

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• Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

  James Boswell

  Book, Writing, Men

  James Boswell (1768). “An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to that Island : and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli”, p.18

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• I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Writing, Long

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin”, p.338, Cambridge University Press

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• When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're using some of the methods of fiction writing. You're lying, but some of the details may well come from your general recollection rather than from the particular scene. In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK. A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing.

  Samuel Hynes

  Lying, Believe, Book

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• Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

  Joel Dicker

  Book, Writing, Loving Someone

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• The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

  Joel Dicker

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because I was writing a book about DNA and personalized medicine and I thought it would be a little bit disingenuous to talk about what could be done without actually having the experiment done on yourself.

  Francis Collins

  Book, Writing, Dna

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

  James Frey

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

  Michael Crichton

  Book, Writing, Location

  "King of the techno-thriller" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2006.

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• Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that in some meaningful way. It doesn't come easy to me. I really admire people who do it with acuity, but I don't, and for me it takes the process of working on a book for years to do any thinking that I feel accomplishes anything. I don't do it off the cuff well.

  Lucy Corin

  Meaningful, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."

  Chad Harbach

  Book, Writing, Hands

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• It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.

  Chad Harbach

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took so long and took so much out of me, that when I finished it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel like I've poured everything from myself into this, and then I'd get depressed for a week. And then once I was ready to write a new story, I would want to write about something that was completely different, so I would search for a totally different character with a different set of circumstances.

  Molly Antopol

  Book, Writing, Character

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• Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

  Kate Christensen

  Book, Hard Work, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mac [Barnett ] and I have been friends for more than ten years. We met working at an educational nonprofit. And we have been pranking each other the whole time. It's our own version of a prank war. We thought we would channel some of that energy into writing a book.

  Jory John

  War, Educational, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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