"For me, the hardest thing in the world……" — Nathaniel Philbrick

"For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book."

— Nathaniel Philbrick

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14 Quotes by Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When…
People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work…
Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a…
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
Whaling was the oil business of its day.
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the…
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.
In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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