Bigs Quote by Elizabeth Crook Download Open image “It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.” — Elizabeth Crook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bigs Journal Night Ordeals Ten Ten years Writing Years
It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years. — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
I wrote Twilight at about the pace of a runaway semi on a steep down slope. It took me three months of super-obsessive behavior… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl. — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself. — LP Copy Share Image
I took time in the day to write as much of the book as I possibly could. I didn't write too much at night,… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I maintained a diary when I was a child and had all the happenings jotted down. — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it. — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal,… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It started out… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night Journal to… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head. — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother to show… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
When I started escaping to a neighbor's house to watch what I darn well pleased, it turned out to be The Big Valley. Every… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I got hooked on TV westerns back in the early sixties when I was about five, mostly because my brother was addicted to them… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn't panning… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I love the writers in Austin. We stick together. We all like each other and go to each other's book signings in case no… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
[My brother] was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
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