Book Quote by Carlos Fuentes Download Open image “I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.” — Carlos Fuentes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Writing
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Listen to those characters in your head...sit down and just write a good book.” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going… — Ted Bell Copy Share Image
I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole… — Billy Burke Copy Share Image
The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Because it’s a fucking disaster to be creative when you know you’re not Mozart or Keats. Dammit, I got tired of scratching around in… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“You will have given another moment to the moment you are living and to the moments you are going to live; you have perverted… — Carlos Fuentes 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
