Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing oneself to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with o...

Franz Kafka

Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out. Summers in your absence are as dark as a room. I have closed my arms again. They must do without. To knock at my heart is like knocking at a tomb. Do not write! Do not write. Let us learn to die, as ...

Louis Simpson

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague or virtual but something you can hold and feel and smell because to my mind heaven like life must be a thing sensual and real. And my book will ...

History of the Rain

Rachel Lapp: [Book and Carter are driving around a rough neighborhood looking for a suspect that fits Samuel's description, with Rachel and Samuel in tow] Where are you taking us? John Book: I'm sorry... we're looking for a suspect in the area, we'd ...

Witness

My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it. It doesn't really matter what the medium is.

Adam Driver

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

Anthony Minghella

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.

Jonah Peretti

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

David Nicholls

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.

Ellie Goulding

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

Edward P. Jones

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

George Strait

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

Gene Wolfe

I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.

Harley King

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

Jose Saramago

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

E. L. Doctorow

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

Gay Talese

I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to force myself to sit and write. I'm not used to having to force myself to work.

Judy Greer

[A]ll who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man cannot love both gold and books... The hideousness of vice is greatly reprobated in books, so that he who loves to commune...

Richard de Bury

No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for one of the Reader's beloved books. No banners flew, no warhorns moaned, no great lord called his men about him to hear his final ringing words. They f...

A Dance with Dragons

I feel guilty when I feed them unhealthy food they like. I feel guilty when I feed them healthy food they don’t like. I feel guilty when I drop them off at school. I feel guilty when I pick them up at school. I feel guilty mostly for writing this b...

Dad Is Fat