Writing A Book Quotes - Page 5

• I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

  Sally Kirkland

  Book, Writing, Stories

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• I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

  Janet Burroway

  Book, Writing, Spinning

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• In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I'm having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Children, Book, Teaching

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• I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

  Tony Dungy

  Mom, Teacher, Growing Up

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• ...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.

  Donald Knuth

  Book, Writing, Learning

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• I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

  Stedman Graham

  Country, Book, Passion

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• Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

  Bruce Feiler

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

  Alexander Kluge

  Book, Writing, Television

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• Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.

  Lynn Johnston

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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• Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.

  Chris Matthews

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 13, 2009.

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• When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.

  Lisa Whelchel

  Girl, Mom, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

  Aidan Chambers

  Book, Writing, People

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• If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

  William H. Gass

  Book, Writing, Would Be

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Book, Writing

  "Oprah Talks to Daniel Pink". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2008.

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• And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Team, Book, Writing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything else, I think it's the closest that a man can come to knowing what is feels like to have a baby.

  Harry Crews

  Baby, Book, Writing

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• I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

  Anthony Storr

  Book, Writing, Way

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• I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

  Franka Potente

  Book, Writing, Germany

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Book, Writing

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• Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.

  Betty Dravis

  Book, Writing, Rainbow

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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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• 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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• I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

  Johnny Vegas

  Book, Writing, Reason

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