Book Quote by Stephen Collins Download Open image “Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.” — Stephen Collins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Jobs Writing Writing a book
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what… — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
When you first quit your regular job and you become a full-time writer, you are paralyzed with free time. You have so much free time. When you are at home, you have a guitar. There's a cat. You got to find ways to create an environment when writing is like going to work. Be efficient with the hours you put… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share
I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons. — Upamanyu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Writing is an art but also a craft, which means it's a job. I don't teach. This is how the groceries get on the… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
Take your time, however long the book needs. I've seen a lot of promising careers go into decline because writers succumbed to the pressure… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What… — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious… — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go… — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs. — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The… — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now. — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle. — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in. — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life… — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career. — Stephen Collins 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