Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

Some books have too much tennis. Some books have too much baseball. Some books have too much boxing. Some books have too much horse.

A. Cretan

I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit.

John Raptor

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernet...

The End of Mr. Y

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a...

Books v. Cigarettes

I am fun, friendly, and I know how to use the third comma in a list of three distinct items or things. In my book that makes me a better lover, because I wrote it. The book, I wrote the book, so of course I’d make myself a better lover.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked it out. I once went home with 30 books! It was then that I realized that kids' novels had the shape of real books, and I...

Cynthia Voigt

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

Generations of Women: In Their Own Words

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

The Writing Class

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

Leonard Cohen

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

Robert Crais

Writing is expressing yourself ... You don't write just to amaze you write to entertain, not others but yourself

Mary Rose Magnaye

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Jeanette Winterson

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

Dick Schaap

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

Alexis Bledel

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Hugh Prather

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Ben Mezrich

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

Atul Gawande

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

Andrew Vachss

I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.

Brooke Burke

Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a best seller, but you must write anyway. You have to write because you love it, because it fuels you, ...

Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political. Otherwise, it goes into the realm of fantasy. So like, if you write about a woman in America in 1910, if you don’t write that ...

Walter Mosley