Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

Lee Child

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

Darrell Hammond

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

Mark Haddon

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

Mary Mouser

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.

Nick McDonell

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

Robert Crais

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

William Steig

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

Vince Flynn

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

Walter Matthau

Being an author, writing a book was great fun. Publishing and marketing, not so fun.

Wynne Stevens

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I mean, what you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That's all." ~ Mrs. Oliver

Dead Man's Folly

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

My new book is going well. It’s practically writing itself! Actually, what I mean is I’m not writing it, my clone is.

Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life

'Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basics. If I were to write a cookery book, for instance, I would be compelled to say that, to make an omelette, you have to break at least one egg. Actually, that'...

Pippa Middleton

When I had the idea for 'Shopaholic', it was as though a light switched on. I realised I actually wanted to write comedy. No apologies, no trying to be serious, just full-on entertainment. The minute I went with that and threw myself into it, it felt...

Sophie Kinsella

I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author's public persona with the work itself. A good 'performer' can make a mediocre book sound str...

Guy Gavriel Kay

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

Ian Rankin

I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.

Ian Rankin

The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've done a second album? Oh, I see, cashing in on your first album, are you?' But I'm a musician! It's sort of what I do.

Ben Schott