The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her,… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
When I first told people I was writing a book, some would say that was interesting, but others thought it was some… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
“I’m writing a book, one letter at a time. After thirteen days, I just finished writing “Once upon a time.” Since it’s… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“To the people who insist they really do have a great idea but they just can't write, I'd say that given some… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Mac [Barnett ] and I have been friends for more than ten years. We met working at an educational nonprofit. And we… — Jory John Copy Share Image
“She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“He was tall in the bed and I could see the silver through his eyelids. His soul sat up. It met me.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“After you finish (writing a book) you are intensely depressed. It doesn’t much matter whether the reviews are good or not. You… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The easiest way to write a book is to use the Table of Contents as an outline. People get stuck when they… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
“I do not know whether many people realize how much more than is ever written there really is in a story —… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Nothingness is everything to philosophers. If you wonder what everything is, then you also wonder what nothing is. The question is whether… — Taylor Carman Copy Share Image
My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like washing an elephant. You don't know from where you should start and where you should end.” — Yashvardhan Shukla Copy Share Image
“La dernière chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la première. ( The last thing… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a book, and I'm warned, 'Oh, this is unsaleable, you need to make it shorter,' or, 'It has to… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have… — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
![“Mac [Barnett ] and I have been friends for more than ten years. We met working at an educational nonprofit. And we have been pranking each other the whole time. It's our own version of a prank war. We thought we would channel some of that energy into writing a book.” quote by Jory John](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c76/jory-john-60334_book_mac-barnett-and-i-have-been-friends-for_2004180.jpg)
