I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“If writing a book were easy everyone would be doing it. Oh, wait, everyone is.” — Simone Pond Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like quilting. Once you start, keep on until it's finished.” — Reba Birmingham Copy Share Image
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book. — Navya Nair Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like giving birth. Marketing a book is like giving birth in the 12th century.” — John Heartfield Copy Share Image
“Like a great ship, this season has run aground. Dawn and dusk alternate at an old man's pace. I live alone in… — Ge Fei Copy Share Image
I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe… — Penny Junor Copy Share Image
“When you're writing a book with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it,… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get… — Frida Farrell 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“when I am writing a book, I’ll go to sleep with a plot hole in my story that I don’t know how… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing a book, I'm doing promotion for a book. One thing I love to do is go off with… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays 1. A beginning ends what an end begins. 2. The despair of the blank page: it… — James Richardson 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
“I heard a famous author say once that the hardest part of writing a book was making yourself sit down at the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction,… — Samuel Hynes Copy Share Image
People will ask me, "How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?" My answer is always: I… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“It perplexes me how many people write books where everyone comes from the same basic set of backgrounds—middle class, white, straight, etc.… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I'm writing a book called Stop Overreacting. If you guys don't buy it I'm going to kill myself. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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