Book Quote by Ha Jin Download Open image “I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.” — Ha Jin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Hard work Revision Work hard
I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others. — David Macaulay Copy Share Image
I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions less and… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I've done projects where I've read 25 books and did all kinds of journal and character work for hours. — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone. — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I work just as much as I always worked. And I can't explain the fact that there have been a series of books coming… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control. — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
“You said, ‘Life is a tragedy, but its meaning lies in how we face the tragedy.” — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs. By force,… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it. — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage. — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
“Where should he go? He wanted to find a building out of which he could jump and kill himself. How about the temple? No,… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
“We ate away, reminiscing about our victories over the enemies from different streets and villages and competing with each other in casting curses. A… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile, — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth. — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine? — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat. — Ha Jin 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
