Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

He was to become the lawmaker for the poor and the downtrodden and the oppressed. He was to be the bearer of at least a measure of social justice to those whom social justice had so long been denied. The restorer of at least a measure of dignity to t...

The Passage of Power

Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life. Every time I have set out to translate the boo...

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage

1) Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring." 3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand. 4) Work according to Program and not according to mo...

Henry Miller

I argue here and throughout this book that if we engage students in real writing tasks and we use technology in such a way that it complements their innate need to find purposes and audiences for their work, we can have them engaged in a digital writ...

Troy Hicks

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.

Norton Juster

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will u...

Jose Rizal

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.

Elmore Leonard

Writing a book is not a crime.

Alexander Ahndoril

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it's true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my h...

Isabel Allende

I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You wil...

Neil Gaiman

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens

The Kitab-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Justin Cronin

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.

Justin Cronin

Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live long enough to write them all!

Tess Gerritsen

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

Michael Ondaatje

Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beautiful women. Creation is the good book.

Mark Siegel

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Jack London

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

Amanda Hocking

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

Bret Easton Ellis