Book Quote by Peter Carey Download Open image “It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.” — Peter Carey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Finish Ideas Like None
I've only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I've written all of them. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one! — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show. — Zara Cox Copy Share Image
During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write. — Jennifer Rowe Copy Share Image
I keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them. — Himesh Patel Copy Share Image
“I have traveled widely. I have seen this country in its infancy. I tell you what it will become. The public squares will be… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“He were still smiling but his voice were hard as a spoon rattling in a metal cup.” — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Would you rather have the lords and nobles back? What is Democracy for? Not so we can rob each other. Or cheat.' I said… — Peter Carey 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
