Writing A Book Quotes - Page 10

• As a digital creator, there's been so much pressure to write a book because so many of my peers have done it. I've been very adamant about saying, "No! I don't want to release a book just for the sake of writing a book. I'm going to write a book when I feel like I have something to say in a book."

  Lilly Singh

  Book, Writing, Peers

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on it for seven years. I was putting into words the stuff I was teaching, and I was writing it up and thought, "Dude, you're writing a book."

  Ayelet Waldman

  War, Teaching, Book

  "The Case for Taking a Very Little Bit of LSD Nearly Every Day". Interview with Jenny Luna, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2017.

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• Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.

  Simon Sinek

  Real, Book, Writing

  Source: advisor.tv

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• That underscored this idea that when we're reading a book or writing a book, you're in an act of co-creation. The reader and the writer are both trying to dress up and present their best selves and then there's that moment, when suddenly, as a reader, you're not exactly you anymore, and likewise, as a writer, you're not really you.

  George Saunders

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "George Saunders: It's All About Suckage-Avoidance". Interview With Doug Polisin, www.audible.com. March 15, 2017.

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• The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person.

  Bruce Feiler

  Book, Writing, Love Is

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you can just focus on creating your art whether that's music or writing a book or painting trust me it is really hard to balance that with a personal life. You have to be willing to sacrifice sometimes things in your personal life if your ultimate goal is to pursue things as an artist.

  Butch Vig

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I just think that the skepticism about truth has almost completely flipped - from being something associated with generally left-leaning progressives to being something which is a tool of right-wing populists and demagogues. I think a lot of those people writing books ten years ago would now think those books are no longer needed, they've kind of been vindicated.

  Julian Baggini

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really long-term, imaginative, empathetic effort to see the world the way someone whose experiences remote from yours might see it. Not every writer works that way; some writers make a wonderful career out of writing books that adhere very closely to how they view the world. The further I go with this, the more interested I get in trying to imagine my way into other perspectives that at first seem foreign to me.

  Jonathan Dee

  Book, Writing, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've never been intimidated to write music, to minister through leading worship, preaching or teaching, or even writing a book or acting. Who knows what God will put before me? Regardless, my heart is settled and content doing what I love to do above all things.

  Ricardo Sanchez

  Book, Teaching, Writing

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

  Brian Koppelman

  Book, Bullshit, Watches

  "Six Second Screenplay Tips from Screenwriter Brian Koppelman (on Vine!)" by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. September 27, 2013.

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• People will ask me, "How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?" My answer is always: I don't change anything about the story itself. I'm going to tell kids the way things really were. What I don't do - and this is the only thing I do differently in writing for kids - is that I don't revel in the gory details. I allow readers to fill in the details as necessary. But I don’t force kids to have to digest something they’re not mature enough or ready for yet. If they are, they can fill in the details even better than I could, just with their imaginations.

  Alan Gratz

  Book, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little by little. I'll wonder, Well, what's coming? And that goes right through to the very end. For over a dozen years now, I've had a recurring dream where I'm reading a book and the pages are blank, but as I read, the words come to exist as fast as my eyes can move. Strange, strange thing.

  Nick Tosches

  Dream, Moving, Book

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. March 16, 2017.

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• I know I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing. And just the sheer power of outreach I think is incredible. It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They were already interested in feminism; they were already interested in being an activist, and they found their way to like a NOW meeting or to a consciousness-raising group or something like that.

  Jessica Valenti

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like that. It is a small, slow crawl to the finish line. Honestly, I have moments when I don't even care if anyone reads this book. I just want to finish it.

  Amy Poehler

  Struggle, Book, Wrestling

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend this approach to writing a book, and will probably not write that way again!

  Liza Campbell

  Book, Writing, Together

  Source: newwest.net

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• Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a way to prudently follow the advice to write what you know.

  Liza Campbell

  Book, Writing, Advice

  Source: newwest.net

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• We never like to miss an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of our life. That's why I never like to have a service without giving an invitation or writing a book, without giving an invitation and presenting that truth. I believe this is the whole key to living your best life, living a fulfilled life or becoming a better you.

  Joel Osteen

  Jesus, Believe, Book

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.

  Geoff Dyer

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what to do. How do you start writing a book together? So Kate [DiCamillo] got up after about 10 minutes into this endeavor, and said, 'Well, that was fun,' and started to head out the door. I said, 'Wait, wait, wait, no no no,' because I'm a bit more patient.

  Alison McGhee

  Fun, Coffee, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market Fraud," January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Writing, Way

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think I was always writing books that had very clear scenic structures. I do tend to write in scenes. I do tend to have a fair amount of dialogue. And I do tend to use stories that don't sprawl all over the place, that have a very sharp focus in terms of how they unfold in time.

  Tom Perrotta

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

  Kami Garcia

  Book, Writing, Turns

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• I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.

  Brian Tracy

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: ceotraining.com

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