I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Living our lifes is like writing a book. It starts the same for all of us and the ending is unknown for… — Andreea-Paula Calugaru Copy Share Image
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia.… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
I think I was always writing books that had very clear scenic structures. I do tend to write in scenes. I do… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
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… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I just can't fathom tweeting, and I'd rather spend my time writing a book than a blog, but I rather grudgingly agreed… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the… — Shomprakash Sinha Roy Copy Share Image
It's not so much less pressure, it's less work, which is really exciting to me. I'm just personally looking forward to being… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
“When I started researching airline stewardesses, I found that the topic made for amusing cocktail party banter. “You’re writing a book about… — Victoria Vantoch Copy Share Image
One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I… — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me seven… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
In the course of writing a book I'll produce loads of pieces of paper to help the novel itself. Diagrams, charts, family… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered.… — William Styron Copy Share Image
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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