Book Writing Quotes
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Book Writing Quotes & Sayings
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I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.
— Charles Darwin
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.
— Sylvia Plath
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
— Francine Prose
Only write a story that only you can write.
— Alysha Speer
In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
— Salman Rushdie
The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.
— Tony Ardizzone
Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
— Lurlene McDaniel
A book lives a new life every time it is read.
— Brandon Sanderson
Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.
— Daphne Du Maurier
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
— Tom T. Hall
My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it.
— Writer's Digest Books
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
— Julian Barnes
As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.
— Leigh Steinberg
I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.
— Larry Winget
At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.
— Ingrid Bengis
Great books make a great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
— Christine Feehan
Wisdom is in books, ... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.
— Dan Brown
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
— Karen Thompson Walker
I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry.
— Ellie Rose McKee
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.
— George Noory
The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
— Edwidge Danticat
Don't ever trust anyone who's writing a book. They make up lies for a living.
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned.
— Michelle Paver
A good book is not the same as a successful one.
— Johnny Rich
Guys didn't like their cars messed with. And I didn't like being messed with, so I guessed we were even.
— Penelope Douglas
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
— Marilyn Vos Savant
There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished.
— Claire Wingfield
More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Your mind is a book; God is the pen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses.
— Fennel Hudson
I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book you can write.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
My new book is going well. It's practically writing itself! Actually, what I mean is I'm not writing it, my clone is.
— Jarod Kintz
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.
— James Rollins
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
— Rick Bragg
Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.
— Kate Christensen
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
— David Sedaris
Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
— Mary Garden
I am writing this book for people like me -- the person I was ten years ago.
— Michelle Alexander
It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.Even when you're the one writing it. — Julie Wright
I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.
— Zephyr Teachout
Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.
— Betty Dravis
I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.
— John Entwistle
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
— Charles Stross
If you don't write, then read.
— Sylvia L'Namira
I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
— Wally Lamb
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
— David Walliams
I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.
— Richard Donner
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.
— Gail Simone
Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!
— Carmen DeSousa
Everyday we are writing a page in a book we call life. So write it better, write it with love.
— Debasish Mridha
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.
— James Boswell
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book?
— Guy Kawasaki
The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
— Terry Tempest Williams
I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!
— Zach Galifianakis
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[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.
— Rosellen Brown
Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements.
— Guy Kawasaki
We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.
— Kathryn Joyce
I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did.
— Carla H. Krueger
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.
— Brandon Sanderson
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
— Charles M. Schulz
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
— Oscar Wilde
