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
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
“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
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
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
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
Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's great to be excited by your profession, whether you are a doctor or a writer. I started writing books when I… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
That underscored this idea that when we're reading a book or writing a book, you're in an act of co-creation. The reader… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and… — Kristin Hannah 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
I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
As a digital creator, there's been so much pressure to write a book because so many of my peers have done it.… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
One thing that's nice about writing a book about food is - unless it's from a specific place - you can revisit… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
[Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience.… — Liz Tuccillo Copy Share Image
I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“But for me to start the journey of writing a book about my life, the first place I had to re visit… — Christian S. Simpson Copy Share Image
“Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“Programming was very different from mathematics, as it was far more creative. In math, there was one right answer, and you worked… — B.V. Larson Copy Share Image
We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us,… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
The challenges of writing a book are very different from writing a blog or tweets. I've been writing a blog since I… — iJustine Copy Share Image
I had a very long discussion with Justice Gorsuch in my office, and he pointed out to me that he is a… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
“There was an itchy lung for a last cigarette and an immense, magnetic pull toward the basement, for the girl who was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
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