Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.

One Wife's Solution: Awakening

For my books, I do everything short of writing my own reviews. Those I do tall.

This Book Title is Invisible

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, e...

Ben Horowitz

No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge - how do you shape this story into a book that people are going to love.

Cassandra Clare

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

China Mieville

What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some...

Margaret Drabble

It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

hi my name is luke, it rhymes with puke!

Please Write in This Book

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

Berkeley Breathed

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

Chuck Palahniuk

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

Robert Adamson

I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.

Diane Mott Davidson

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Terry Pratchett

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone ca...

Anthony Horowitz

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Jackie Collins

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

Eric Brown

I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and...

Jane Smiley

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell...

Jennifer Weiner