Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

Life is like a book. The first chapter you read is always exciting and new. You don't want it to end. But it does. The next chapter takes you further into the book of life. Different story than the last. But the most important thing you realize that ...

Darnell Houston

Gil: Gil Pender. Ernest Hemingway: Hemingway. Gil: Hemingway? Ernest Hemingway: You liked my book? Gil: Liked? I loved all of your work. Ernest Hemingway: Yes. It was a good book because it was an honest book, and that's what war does to men. And the...

Midnight in Paris

Joe Turner: What does Operations care about a bunch of damn books? A book in Dutch. A book out of Venezuela. Mystery stories in Arabic. Atwood: Wait! Joe Turner: What the hell is so important about... [He stops as he sees the connection] Joe Turner: ...

Three Days of the Condor

It was an easy decision for me which books to self-publish as ebooks. I got the rights back to two Avon books that I wrote at the start of my career. I paid to have these two books, 'Bold Conquest' and 'Wild Hearts,' scanned. When I got them back as ...

Virginia Henley

Very often we write down a sentence then another what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

Concrete

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.

Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature

...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...

A Familiar Rain

Today I write, riots with insite! Tomorrow I read, take the lead! Sometimes I sleep, health to keep! But for now I write, and got no gripe!

A Fox Called Woff

A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.

How to Speak and Write Correctly

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says ' ' the translation of which is— the poet is born, not made.

How to Speak and Write Correctly

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

How To Write Science Fiction

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

How To Write Science Fiction

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Write and your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people.

Beautiful Quotes

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

Sondre Lerche

Yes, I receive fan mail. One of my favorite things to do is sit down and read the letters people write. It's really amazing the time people take to write these letters, tell their stories, draw pictures, etc.

Marisa Miller

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill tha...

Ntozake Shange

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

Vanilla Ice

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Amy Tan