Book Quote by Curtis Sittenfeld Download Open image “No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.” — Curtis Sittenfeld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Far Feel Perfect Will
I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made… — Ahmet Zappa Copy Share Image
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
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Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come… — Stanley Unwin Copy Share Image
It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“I think adults forget just how much faith teenagers can have in them, just how willing to believe that adults, by virtue of being… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“She came down to my dorm that night, knocking on the door around nine o'clock. Martha was at the library, and I was eating… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I should probably be careful admitting this, but sometimes, when my characters are having a disagreement, it's a disagreement I'm having with myself. I… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Approaching each other, him from the gym, me from the library- this was when I walked down the aisle and he was waiting, this… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
There's an ongoing 'water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink' situation at my house in terms of both pens and paper. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“But the truth was that I didn't want to stay in Riley. The pulls of familial love and obligation could not, for the moment,… — Curtis Sittenfeld 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
