Book Quote by Alistair Maclean Download Open image “I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.” — Alistair Maclean ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Finished
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published. — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight. — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my long form,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
“Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
“Tallal, Lawrence relates, gave a moan like a hurt animal. Then he rode off to higher ground and remained there for some moments, shivering… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
“The point I make is simply that cruelty and hate and intolerance are the monopoly of no particular race or creed or time. They… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“I should have listened to Hunslett. Again I should have listened to Hunslett. And again for Hunslett's sake. But I didn't know then that… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“He must have courage, not the physical courage required on a battlefield but the moral courage to make and carry out decisions that might… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“She was still doing forty knots, driving in under the guns of the enemy, guns at maximum depression, when "A" magazine blew up, blasted… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.” — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
