Book Quote by Gertrude Stein Download Open image “It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.” — Gertrude Stein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Writing
There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“What is the answer?" [ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ] In that case, what is the question?” — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share
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 mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
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
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