Writing a book Quotes · Page 6

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

— R. A. Salvatore

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music…

— Steve Brown

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

— Bell Hooks

“If writing a book were easy everyone would be doing it. Oh, wait, everyone is.”

— Simone Pond

“Writing a book is like quilting. Once you start, keep on until it's finished.”

— Reba Birmingham

I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book.

— Navya Nair

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

— Ruth Ozeki

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books…

— Josh Lieb

“I'm writing a book on Procrastination. I hope to start it tomorrow. I've been thinking about it for almost six years now.”

— Ron Moore

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

— Mindy Kaling

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but…

— John Grisham

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to…

— Sharon Cameron

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…

— Peter Singer

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a…

— Charles Darwin

Writing a book is something I actually feel like I could do. I don't know when that would happen, but I feel…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes…

— Franklin Foer

I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now…

— Elvis Costello

We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what…

— Alison McGhee

There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great…

— Michael Morpurgo

A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said…

— Elmore Leonard

I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because…

— Francis Collins

I've just sold my first TV show to a network. It's a comedy and it may never make it to air but…

— Teri Hatcher

“If you’re afraid you can’t write, the answer is to write. Every sentence you construct adds weight to the balance pan. If…

— Richard Rhodes

I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I…

— Gerard Way

“That was something else I owed Teddy White. I and others of my generation, who went from newspaper and magazine reporting to…

— David Halberstam

“The main reason to use Booki rather than a word processor to write a book is to effectively collaborate with other authors.…

— James D. Simmons

“Dan, who was writing a book on the radical activity of the twenties and thirties, took the occasion of our trip to…

— Edmund Wilson

“Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I…

— Andrew Solomon

“I bring this up because in writing some thoughts about a father, or not having a father, I feel as though I'm…

— Donald Miller

“He is writing a book," said the King, following them out into the sunny, crisp gardens. "About the gardens here. We have…

— Heather Dixon

“Writing a book is like giving birth. Marketing a book is like giving birth in the 12th century.”

— John Heartfield

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

— Don Marquis

Unlike many travel books I didn't set out to travel with the idea of writing a book in mind.

— Chesa Boudin

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

— Zach Galifianakis

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

— Blaise Pascal

I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting?

— Hilton Als

“Writing a book is like dating. It's exciting. It's dreamy. And after four years, I just want to end it.”

— Carole Radziwill

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

— Baron de Montesquieu