Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

Susan Wiggs

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

T. S. Eliot

I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.

Thomas Steinbeck

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Khaled Hosseini

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

Linda Lael Miller

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications

Linda F. Radke

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

Lee Siegel

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

Maya Angelou

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

Mark Haddon

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

Mark Haddon

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

Max Hastings

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf.

Marlee Matlin

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.

Mary MacLane

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

R. L. Stine

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

Stephen Carter

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

Meg Rosoff

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

Molly Ringwald

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

Nicole Krauss

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

Elizabeth Moon

No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.

Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

If I get a chance to write a comic book or do a voice in an Adult Swim show, I do it. It's much more fulfilling to me and I get to work with people who I'm a fan of.

Bill Hader