Book Quote by Richard Curtis Download Open image “Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.” — Richard Curtis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Checks Faster Publishers Writers and writing Writing Writing by writers
“Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks!" ~ Richard Curtis ~” — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read. — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort… — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a… — Robert Barr Copy Share Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and to include… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God. — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Look at the sky. It’s not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there: lighter blue… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most important ways of finding out the truth - and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It's also an immense bringer of joy - I learnt how to laugh through television,… — Richard Curtis Copy Share
“Baldrick, we are about as similar as two...dis-similar things in a pod!” — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
“Prime Minister: Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always… — Richard Curtis Copy Share
“Percy, you are dismissed from my service." "Me? Why, my lord?" "Why? Because, Percy, far from being a fit consort for a prince of the realm, you would bore the leggings off a village idiot. You ride a horse rather less well than another horse would. Your brain would make a grain of sand look large and ungainly, and the… — Richard Curtis Copy Share
“Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!” — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there -… — Richard Curtis Copy Share
“Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord? Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you can brush your teeth with it!” — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven… — Richard Curtis 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 mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
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
