Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

The Writings of a Savage

...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.

The Writings of a Savage

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Writings on Writing

El color del agua parece ser del color del vaso dentro del cual ha sido vertida'.

The World of the Sufi: An Anthology of Writings about Sufis and Their Work

El color del agua aparenta ser del color del vaso en el cual fue vertido

The World of the Sufi: An Anthology of Writings about Sufis and Their Work

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

Zen in the Art of Writing

I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.

Harry Mathews

For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!

Jo Nesbo

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Ken Hill

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

Michael Morpurgo

Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.

Nathaniel Philbrick

If your screen stays blank or your notepad empty, God cannot use your words.

Called To Write, Biblical Truths For Authors and Bloggers

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Becoming an effective letter writer means analyzing each situation individually and choosing the form of correspondence accordingly.

How to Write a Letter

Write them all down. The mistakes and the blessings and the places you cracked in two. Write the prayers and the tantrums. The sacred and the profane. The open roads and the closed doors. Nothing is permanent.

Jeanette LeBlanc

One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

Linda Cardellini

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

Nicholas Sparks

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

Paul McCartney

I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday That Changed Today.

The Prolific Penman

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

Philip Yancey