Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

Walter Kaufmann

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.

Walter Salles

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

Yoko Ono

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.

Zoë Marriott

The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in the form of e-books is very much up in the air.

Graham Swift

The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.

Jesse James Garrett

I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.

Noel Gallagher

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

The Daddy Rock

So stark ist der Zauber der Musik und, immer mächtiger werdend, musste er jede Fessel einer andern Kunst zerreißen." ( )

E. T. A. Hoffmann's Musical Writings: Kreisleriana; The Poet and the Composer; Music Criticism

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I loved him, would I censor my writing to please him? If I married him, would I force my writing to be married as well?

Fear of Fifty

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story.

Gaza Writes Back

He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.'

A History of Christianity

Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own.

Boy & Girl

Not like would I write, Not like if I might, Not like at his best, Not like or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all.

Blackberries

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul

If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything.

Tom Stoppard