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“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.”

Writing Book Fields Hot Marketing Rainbow Writing A Book Sticky

Author:Betty Dravis

“Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.”

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Author:Bette Midler

“Writing a book is one of the very few sensible reasons for not having time to read a book.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.”

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Author:Laverne Cox

“Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.”

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Author:Stephen Collins

“Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.”

Writing Book Difficult Serious Paper Anxiety Aspect Writing A Book

Author:Frank Luntz

“Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“Writing a book isn't just about 'writing a book.' Unfortunately, it's about selling it, and getting it out to the masses.”

Book Author Dr Margaret Aranda

Author:Dr Margaret Aranda

“Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.”

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Author:Guy Kawasaki

“Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.”

Writing Book Hands Fields Cards Experts Impressive Writing A Book Business Card

Author:James Altucher

“Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a way to prudently follow the advice to write what you know.”

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Author:Liza Campbell

“Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what have you done but nobody else does.” ~Madi Preda”

Book Marketing

Author:Madi Preda

Source: How To Promote and Market Your Book

“Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.”

Writing Conversation Commitment Checks

Author:Warren Buffett

“Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine...) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.”

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Author:Bertrand Meyer

“Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.”

Writing New York Involved Demand Tough Prepared Columns New York Times

Author:David Plotz

“Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.”

Writing Children Littles Play Can Do Fool Proud Computer Program Silly Be Proud Viruses Silly Little Computer Viruses

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Writing a decade later, in the essay 'Experience and Poverty' of 1933, Benjamin, unsurprisingly, saw the phenomenon differently: 'A generation that had gone to school in horse-drawn streetcars now stood in the open air, amid a landscape in which nothing was the same except the clouds and, at its center, in a force field of destructive torrents and explosions, the tiny, fragile human body. With this tremendous development of technology, a completely new poverty has descended on humankind. And the reverse side of this poverty is the oppressive wealth of ideas that has been spread among people, or rather has swamped them entirely - ideas that have come with the revival of astrology and the wisdom of yoga, Christian Science and chiromancy, vegetarianism and gnosis, scholasticism and spiritualism. For this is not a genuine revival but a galvanization.' If Kracauer maintains the idealist notion that 'concrete communal forms' might arise as the reflection of ideas emanating from a generalized national spirit, Benjamin suggests that the unceasing profusion of this 'wealth of ideas' would actually 'swamp' people - and that a new experiential poverty or constructive divestiture is actually the only appropriate response to the times.”

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Author:Howard Eiland

Source: Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life

“Writing a diary every evening before going to bed is a good habit. We can record in the diary how much time we have devoted to our spiritual practice. The diary should be written in a way that helps us see our mistakes and correct them. It should not be a mere document of other peoples' faults or our daily transactions.”

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Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Writing a fictional book is like writing a piece of history that only you know, but unlike history when you forget about an idea you wanted to add it doesn't come back and you have to think of another one.”

Story Writing

Author:Marco King

“Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.”

Writing Has Beens Art Said Book Film Novel Sea Skills Art Is Series Compromise Crafts Swimming Baths Relentless Adapting

Author:William Boyd

“Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”

Writing Firsts I Can Boxes Sand Castles Reminding

Author:Shannon Hale

“Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat—chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange.”

Writing Humor Fire Military Scene Battle Chaos Confusion Combat Bullets Cool First Draft

Author:Don Roff

“Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.”

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Author:Ted Solotaroff

Source: The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007

“Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.”

Writing Trying Firsts House Strong Wind Strong Winds

Author:William Faulkner

“Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labour of love bordering on madness.”

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Author:Steven Saylor

“Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.”

Writing Years Firsts Courses Novel Six Crafts Crash

Author:Rachel Kushner

“Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.”

Writing Stories Levels Greater Alive One Thing Inspire Comfort Pursuit Venture Inspire Others Greater Good Funny Story

Author:Romany Malco

“Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop.”

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Author:Ben Hecht

“Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one, it makes it really hard to get the other published.”

Ifs Writing Littles Hard Novel Letters Queries

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Writing a good song is not mimicry, replication, or pastiche; it is the opposite. It is an act of self-murder that destroys all one has strived to produce in the past. It is those dangerous, heart-stopping departures that catapult the artist beyond the limits of what they recognize as their known self. This is part of the authentic creative struggle that precedes the invention of a unique lyric of actual value; it is the breathless confrontation with one’s vulnerability, peril, and smallness, pitted against a sense of sudden, shocking discovery. It is the redemptive artistic act that stirs the heart of the listener, where the listener recognizes their own blood, struggle, and suffering in the inner workings of the song.”

Writing Art Songwriting Generative Ai

Author:John Warner

Source: More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI

“Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.”

Writing Impossible Tasks Scripts Great Ones

Author:Michael Arndt

“Writing a great song is not a simple task, but I feel like when everything comes together and you sing it in a certain way that no-one else can sing it, when it's written in a certain way that's perfect for the way that you're performing it, that those are the things that make a song great.”

Way Feels Writing Together Certain Song Simple Perfect Written Tasks Performing

Author:William Beckett

“Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.”

Writing Mean Drink Ocean Swim Journal Journaling

Author:George Sand

Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand

“Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.”

Writing Mind Long Book Turns Sides Interest Friendship Fields Comfort Attractive Companion Leisure Amusement Your Side

Author:Winston Churchill

Source: The Second World War: The Gathering storm

“Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.”

Writing Humans Long Reading Human Beings Education Complexes Expected Essays Constructive

Author:Carl Bereiter

“Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet.”

Should Writing Years Three Asks Answers Band Affected Three Years

Author:Cornelius Eady

“Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.”

Writing Ideas Force Basketball Paper Coaching Basketball Coaching Manuals Thoughts And Ideas

Author:Tara VanDerveer

“Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.”

Writing Excited Memoir Narcissism

Author:Bill Ayers

“Writing a memoir is a holistic method of learning and healing by placing responsibility for personal transformation on the spiritual authority of the self. Writing a person’s life story is useful to gain a comprehensive understanding regarding a person’s maturation, distinctive stages of personal development, and the influences provided by their family and society. The writing processes also serves as a catharsis for painful personal events that a person seeks to integrate into their transmuting being. Writing our personal story, we discover new dimensions of our being.”

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Author:Kilroy J. Oldster

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.”

Writing I Can Water Interesting Crazy Memoir Bottles Water Bottles

Author:Lauren Graham

“Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large canvas and all the details.”

World Writing Novel Creating Details Tone Canvas

Author:Stephen Chbosky

“Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.”

Writing Reading Novel

Author:Katherine Center

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”

Writing Fall Novel Hair Terrible Teeth Decay

Author:Flannery O'Connor

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”

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Author:Flannery O'Connor

“Writing a novel is a trek.”

Writing Quote

Author:Erin Summerill

Source: Ever the Hunted

“Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.”

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Author:Maxwell Perkins

“Writing a novel is a way of expressing your inner thoughts”

Life Writing Novel

Author:Katymick

“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties." (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)”

Writing Novels Casualties Victims Craft

Author:John Irving

“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.”

Writing Stories Novel Victim Casualties

Author:John Irving

“Writing a novel is agony.”

Writing Novel Agony

Author:George Orwell

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