Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Little Women Book Two Book: Good Wives

Sometimes I’ll read a book and feel it was written just for me. Then I’ll flip the book over to look at the cover to see who wrote it, only to discover that it feels like it was written for me because it was written by me.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.

Richard Curtis

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

Luke Bryan

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.

Lev Grossman

Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for cutesy books, dull books, or books that talk down. Children are not inferior. They may be small in stature but not...

Betsy Hearne

I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.

Jacqueline Woodson

People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know, books survived movies; books survived TV. Books are surviving manga and anime. Books will always be there in one form or another. You just have a larger ...

John Scalzi

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...

Fiction Writer's Workshop

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart. In your writing and your life.

The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.

Life Form

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

Philip Pullman

Whenever you are depressed ,write your signature on a paper and write and write finally you ll have pain in you hand than your mind.

pavankumar nagaraj

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Stieg Larsson

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

Tracy Chapman

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

Tanith Lee

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

Taiye Selasi

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

Tom Stoppard

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer