Book Quote by John Gregory Dunne Download Open image “Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.” — John Gregory Dunne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Doe Easier Mean Next Written
Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting. — Harry Golden Copy Share Image
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.” — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal. — John Gregory Dunne 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
