Writing A Book Quotes - Page 13

• When I'm really plugged in I find it difficult to write. It's like digging a well. If you make a void, something moves in to fill it. Writing books is like that. It's mostly about freeing up time, doing nothing, and in that time some writing starts to happen. We need to figure out how to maintain those voids.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Moving, Book, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

  Catherine Mayer

  Running, Book, Writing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or memoir. If you don't want to make that claim - if that's not what's important to you; if you're more interested in storytelling and interiority and interpersonal relationships than in objective, checkable facts about the world - then why wouldn't you call it a novel, and take advantage of what that gets you, of the extra freedom, of belonging to the tradition of the novel?

  Elif Batuman

  Book, Writing, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find yourself living in her universe, doing things that are completely unexpected or unimaginable for you, but you blink and you're up on a stage singing, or wearing a peculiar wig, or writing a book filled with feelings and emotion, or doing something equally as unlikely.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Reality

  "Uncharted Waters: Joe Hill Explores Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Interview With Robin A. Rothman, www.amazonbookreview.com. June 9, 2013.

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• I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert - I like that. And seeing clients, doing group therapy, writing books.

  Albert Ellis

  Teaching, Book, Writing

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• I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a book. I have to stick to it and concentrate.

  Jane Jacobs

  Book, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.metropolismag.com

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• Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

  Bette Midler

  Country, Horse, Book

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• When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.

  Frank J. Tipler

  Christian, Dream, Atheist

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• I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Book, Writing, Dull

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• As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

  Donna Tartt

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

  Tracy Chevalier

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

  Bell Hooks

  Moving On, Book, Writing

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

  Clive Barker

  Book, Writing, Masturbation

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Aug 04, 2013

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• I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Book, Writing, Psychology

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• Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.

  Nancy Spain

  Book, Writing, Atmosphere

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• Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Perseverance, Book, Writing

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• I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

  Gene Wilder

  Book, Home, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

  Molly Ringwald

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.

  Josh Lieb

  Book, Writing, People

  Josh Lieb (2015). “Ratscalibur”, p.161, Penguin

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• I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.

  William Gibson

  Strong, Real, Book

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.

  Hilary Liftin

  Book, Writing, Long

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.

  James Altucher

  Book, Writing, Hands

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