Able Quote by John Hodgman Download Open image “Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.” — John Hodgman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Book Books Everyone Few People Want Wants Writing
Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them. — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult. — Pamela Yates 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
If somebody says that they want to write a book but do not know what to write about, they will never write a book. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I navigated the world as a hedge maze of constant fear and worry in which I might take the wrong turn and jeopardize the… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“There are transitions in life whether we want them or not. You get older. You lose jobs and loves and people. The story of your life may change dramatically, tragically, or so quietly you don’t even notice. It’s never any fun, but it can’t be avoided. Sometimes you just have to walk into the cold dark water of the unfamiliar… — John Hodgman Copy Share
John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures,… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I've made my evolutionary purpose and had children. I don't care if anybody likes me, I'm going to do what I want to do.… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed to keep… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
You wouldn't want to live a life in which you are loved or approved by all people on Earth or even within your own… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great. — John Hodgman 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
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world. — Nas Copy Share
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
