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
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
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
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
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
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
“I'm writing a book on magic”, I explain, and I'm asked, “Real magic?” By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
I think the thing I had to be careful about while writing a book was not to say anything that was revealing… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange,… — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old! I do plan on the near future… — Vinnie Vincent Copy Share Image
Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote,… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
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I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say,… — Catherine Crier Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about. — Jack Kent Cooke Copy Share Image
Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a… — Betty Dravis Copy Share Image
“There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
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 need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with… — Upamanyu Chatterjee 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
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning. — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
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Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm... I think the only sensible thing is just to… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There's just something "off" about equating the act of spending three years writing a book with the act of someone exploiting themselves… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your… — Eddie Cahill Copy Share Image
I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate,… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?'… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
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