Writing A Book Quotes - Page 7

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

  Bruce Feiler

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

  Rachel Dratch

  Book, Writing, Creative

  "Rachel Dratch Is An Upper". Interview with Lianne Stokes, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now I'm writing a book, now I'm being an actor. It should be a natural thing. I think it's a natural thing for you to act. But I think that people that feel that, because they've written one maybe quite beautiful love song that equips them to play Romeo, is probably misguided.

  Elvis Costello

  Beautiful, Song, Moving

  "Summit Talk". Option magazine Interview with Tom Waits, tomwaitsfan.com. July 1989.

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• When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, Copies

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

  John F. Kennedy

  Book, Writing, Library

  Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.

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• Oliver North says he is very upset that John Walker could come back to this country and cash in on his celebrity status. He hates to see someone who did something wrong get rewarded by writing a book or getting a TV show out of it.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Hate, Book

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• I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

  Charlize Theron

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Book, Writing, Wings

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.7

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• My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

  Richard Bach

  Book, Writing, Way

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on earning you a living without you doing any more work on it. It's absolutely ideal for an idler.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Book, Writing, Idlers

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• [Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will have an editor, but their job is to help you clarify or improve your voice, not change it.

  Liz Tuccillo

  Jobs, Fun, Book

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up of his collection of books almost invariably follows; the building up of a good library, the work of a lifetime, has been so much labour lost, so far as future generations are concerned. Talent, yes, and genius too, are displayed not only in writing books but also in buying them, and it is a pity that the ruthless hammer of the auctioneer should render so much energy and skill fruitless.

  Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

  Book, Writing, Men

  Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (1898). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)”

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• Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.

  Thomas Lennon

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Book, Writing

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• Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

  Laverne Cox

  Book, Writing, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd kept the handwritten text. I recall some of the story, but it was a start into the world of writing.

  Franny Armstrong

  Mother, Book, Writing

  Source: romancing-the-book.com

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• The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.

  Randy Pausch

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Alberto Manguel (2006). “With Borges”, Telegram Books

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• I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Writing, Joy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “The Great Crash 1929”

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• I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Writing, Play

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 1, 1799.

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• I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing books about the living to the unborn (tucked away as Literature) or writing books about the unborn to the living (whiffed away as prophecy). I put up my life on advertising the living to the living, on making men of genius known to the people and interpreted to their time, that the time in which I live, may live face to face with its men of vision and that they may live face to face with one another.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Book, Writing, Men

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1919). “The House of Twenty Seven Gardens”

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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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• Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set.

  Mindy Kaling

  Book, Writing, Skills

  "Interview: Mindy Kaling Talks Sex In Sweet Valley (And Other Concerns)". Interview with Sara Benincasa, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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