Book Quote by Stephen J. Dubner Download Open image “While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.” — Stephen J. Dubner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Hard Hard time Reading Time Writing Writing a book
I've loved reading since I was a kid. Sometimes I have two or three books going at the same time. — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole… — Billy Burke Copy Share Image
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading, and as a child I used to try desperately to write books like the ones I read. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I feel like the books that I'm reading at any given time will really help me with my work, because it's just more characters,… — Ellie Bamber Copy Share Image
It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading. — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
These are the two sides of Steven Spielberg: the reverent grown-up who knows when to say the right thing and the exuberant kid who… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
Like the graduates of some notorious boot camp, my brothers and sisters and I look back with a sort of perverse glee at the… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution? — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
People are being incentivized for the wrong things. We've heard about a lot - doctors for procedures rather than creating wellness or maintaining wellness. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed by the law-abiding people. And so… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
As everyone knows, tips constitute the bulk of a waiter's or waitress's income. But they are also optional, at least in theory. Does it… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
What I think of as 'freakonomics' is mostly storytelling around an idea - not a theme but an idea. I like ideas much more… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us - and that's fine. Nobody wants… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really. — Stephen J. Dubner 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