Best Writing A Book Quotes
143 Writing A Book quotes by 131 unique authors
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Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing…
— Seth Godin
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The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the…
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
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In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend…
— Arthur Hertzberg
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I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that…
— Tony Dungy
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...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every…
— Donald Knuth
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I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.
— Stedman Graham
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All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.
— Brian Koppelman
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We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express…
— Alexander Kluge
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Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.
— Lynn Johnston
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When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.
— Lisa Whelchel
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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
— Hilaire Belloc
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Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the…
— Chris Matthews
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If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
— William H. Gass
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying…
— Daniel H. Pink
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As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.
— Donna Tartt
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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 unlike anything else,…
— Harry Crews
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
— George Orwell
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The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When…
— Haruki Murakami
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There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending…
— Pamela Druckerman
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I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming…
— Franka Potente
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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
— Blaise Pascal
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But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and…
— Paul Schrader
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I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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