Writing A Book Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said anything yet about the good guy? Because I know you spend so much time with the bad guys.' Because they're fun. So then you have to make the good guy fun, in order to compete. That's the challenge.

  Elmore Leonard

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Book, Writing, Done

  Interview with Nicholas Confessore, David M. Halbfinger, www.nytimes.com. December 27, 2008.

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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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• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Writing, Spinning

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.86, Canongate Books

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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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• 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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• I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

  Mark Haddon

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Book, Writing

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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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• I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stupid, Believe, Book

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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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• I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

  Alanis Morissette

  Book, Writing, Well Known

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• I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.

  George R. R. Martin

  Running, Book, Writing

  "George R. R. Martin Interview GAME OF THRONES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2011.

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• I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

  Peter Singer

  Art, Lying, Book

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• The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

  Norman Mailer

  Baby, Children, Book

  1971 'The Siege of Mailer: Hero to Historian', in Village Voice, 21 Jan.

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• No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

  Steve Martin

  Book, Writing, People

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• I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Writing, Years

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• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Literature

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• The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one of them. I can always be rebelling against my boss. Like, I'm supposed to be writing this book, but - heh heh heh - I'm writing a movie, secretly. I'm procrastinating, and in my off-hours I'm working on this movie that I'm not allowed to do, because I'm supposed to be writing a book!

  Miranda July

  Book, Writing, Boss

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Book, Writing, Dragons

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• When I'm writing a book I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Writing, Trying

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• When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Writing, Ties

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