Book Quote by Tess Gerritsen Download Open image ““The greatest challenge in writing your book is maintaining the drive to finish it.”” — Tess Gerritsen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Motivation Writing
“The most important thing to do when writing a book is to finish it.” — Suzanna Reeves Copy Share Image
“It really is torture to sit around the house and write all day. I’m thinking it might motivate me to finish the book faster,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“The problem with reading a good book is trying to cope after it's finished.” — Devonnie A. Black Copy Share Image
“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a herculean task, but the toughest thing is to get convinced with your work, and finally give it a green… — Shivam Chaudhary Copy Share Image
“I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's… — Brooklyn Hudson Copy Share Image
“Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.” — Magus Tor Copy Share Image
“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
“Only great challenges make it worthwhile to pack up and move all one's books.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I always think of books being tougher in a sense, in that you’ve got to sit down and you’ve got to do a little… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.” — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?” — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Fans are always asking me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I'm very curious, and I get inspiration from everywhere.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
After twelve years of living in Hawaii, I'd gotten a serious case of 'rock fever.' I just couldn't live on an island any longer. — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear. — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“If you don't love him, if you don't even care about him, then seeing him now shouldn't be all that painful. Should it?” — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“My name is Mila, and this is my journey. There are so many places where I could begin the story. I could start in… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“Now we sit and wait,” the woman said, and she settled into a chair, the gun on her lap. “What are we waiting for?”… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess. — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Because I never plan anything out ahead of time, I'm always in the process of learning about my characters. Without a biographical sketch to… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Mom and I often talked about the trip we'd someday take together to the 'city of eternal spring' where she was born. In Kunming,… — Tess Gerritsen 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
