Book Quote by Andrew Sean Greer Download Open image “With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.” — Andrew Sean Greer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Each Me Something Trying
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
Every book is vulnerable, and every book is nerve-wracking, but I've never been both so excited and terrified to have a book coming into… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again. — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I need to… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book! — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Then I traveled. Quite a bit, in fact. You have to stockpile a few beautiful vistas in your memory, Pearlie. In case we're rationed… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“To give up a marriage - someone unmarried might imagine it's like giving up a seat in a theater, or sacrificing a trick in… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Standing on the deck of a San Francisco ferryboat, in a gray suit so precisely the same colour as the fog that he seems… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“A rosewater smell from the box summoned, instantly, a dictatorial woman with a tight bun, hectoring him with questions. The cut, the buttons, the… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one. — Andrew Sean Greer 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
