Books Quote by Judith Guest Download Open image “I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.” — Judith Guest ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books I can Long Long time Novel Time Tired Writing
I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
“I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.” — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
“It has always been easier to believe himself capable of evil than to accept evil in others.” — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing. — Judith Guest 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
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb 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
