“Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingFirstsWellsMeanI CanImportantBookReasonDoneHappensEnjoyWrittenHugeAmountPlanningRelaxChaptersOutlines Author:R. L. Stine
“I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBookHardDesireFunWrittenAmountCommitmentSticksHaving Fun Author:Ted Bell
“If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.” IfsWantWritingFirstsMeanBookTvsAmountRidiculous Author:Josh Lieb
“Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.” MindBookReadingMaterialsAmountDressesSuitsRuinsQuantityMetaphysicsIndulgeIndulge In Author:Thomas A. Edison
“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.” WritingHas BeensTwoBookEnoughAblePastFormAttentionGreaterWrittenAmountDecadesJournalismRememberedEngagedFascinatedEssaysHarborsWriting A BookAmusedDisdainSponsorship Book:This Quiet Dust and Other Writings Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings
“The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.” ThinkingShouldBookUseTurnsDealsCuttingTreeIndustryAmountPaperImpactDistanceMarketingEnormousTraditionalElectricityEcologicalRetail Author:William Gibson
“Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery for dummies in 21 days or whatever. It's just plain inappropriate, and it's intentionally out of people's reach.” PeopleStillsBookMomentsHugeAmountMedicalAssociationInappropriateDummyNeurosurgery Author:Erik Naggum
“Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to what Dennett terms "skyhooks." Do you believe in skyhooks? I don't.” BelieveBookIdeasReasonTermReligiousAtheismDangerousAmountNo ReasonReviewsSkepticDangerous Ideas Author:Garrett Hardin
“When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information she/he has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that she/he has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.” WantWritingMadeBookCharacterCertainOrderEmotionNovelKnowingInformationReaderAmountPaidStructureGuidesMaintainingPaymentFidelityPaid Off Author:David Bezmozgis
“I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.” YearsBookThreeReadingFictionFourCarAmountBedFairsNonfictionDesksBack And Forth Author:James Patterson
“My readers often say to me, 'If we lived next door to each other, we'd be best friends.' That is precisely what I wanted to say to smart, funny, self-effacing Ellen McCarthy after I finished reading The Real Thing. I loved every lesson laid out in a book that wouldn't dare to call itself a field guide to marriage but amounts to as much on every page. This is a deeply useful little book.” IfsLittlesBookRealSelfWantedReadingNextDoorsFieldsReaderAmountLessonsPagesSmartDareFinishedGuidesReal Things Author:Kelly Corrigan
“A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.” BookTogetherBeautifulAmountBeautiful ThingsScholarshipBook Learning Author:Franz Grillparzer
“In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books.” PeopleIfsWorldBookDifferentCountrySchoolTypeAmountMets Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.” WorldMadeStillsBookFilmSportsDecisionBehindsCollegeAmountMusic IsExecutivesUpbringingFilm And Music Author:Nick Offerman
“I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.” IfsLittlesLongBookSoulWould BeWantedJesusLosesSimpleSawsGraceMysteryFlowerAmountFitGayEqualLong TimeSpringRoseI RealizedTinyLovelyCharmScentPreferenceVioletEnlighteningLiliesSplendorMeadowsDaisiesLovelinessWhiteness Author:Therese of Lisieux
“I worked as an actor for a few years before anything happened, so I'm used to going up for auditions, and then not getting the role. But sometimes I don't read the book of the film, in case I just totally fall in love with it, and then it just becomes an obsession and you want to do it so much because you've completely fallen in love with the story and the characters. And then, if the part doesn't go your way, it's heartbreaking. So, there's a certain amount of distance you have to keep before you can throw yourself in 100%.” IfsWayWantYearsBookSometimesCharacterStoriesFilmUsedCertainFallActorsRolesCasesHappenedAmountDistanceFalling In LoveObsessionFallenAuditionsHeartbreaking Author:Jim Sturgess
“I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.” FirstsBookLastsEnergyAmount Author:Jan Brett
“A character like Wonder Woman is so iconic and yet, over the course of her history, there have been lots of subtle changes. We couldn't stray too far from the comic book look, but you do have a certain amount of leeway in terms of how you interpret those elements for animation.” LooksHas BeensBookCharacterCertainCoursesTermWonderAmountElementsComicSubtleComic BookAnimationIconicWonder Woman Author:Bruce Timm
“I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.” ThinkingWayWritingPersonsBookEndsCertainBornCreativeTeacherAmountI've LearnedFavouriteCreative WritingBest TeacherFavourite Book Author:Markus Zusak
“The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books I sell, I think. It seems to have nothing to do with what I'm writing, but what degree of success I'm perceived to have. It's really weird, especially since I spent so much of my life covering people who are famous. It's interesting to actually have it happen to me on some level.” PeopleThinkingWritingBookSeemsHappensInterestingLevelsAmountDegreesNegativeSellsResponseRelatedCoveringReally Weird Author:Chuck Klosterman
“So depending on the day, my schedule is different. But, generally speaking, I get up in the morning, I do a 30 to 45 minute prescheduling of tweets and just seeing if there's anything urgent - do-or-die emails or server outages, stuff like that. Then after that I go to the gym, where I do all my long-form reading - so Instapaper, and all the Kindle books. I go through an embarrassing amount of books per week.” IfsLongBookDifferentFormDiesReadingStuffMorningSeeingWeekMinutesAmountGet UpGymSchedulesEmbarrassingEmailUrgentTweetKindlesServer Author:Maria Popova
“I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention. No amount of word-making will ever make a single soul to know these mountains. As well seek to warm the naked and frostbitten by lectures on caloric and pictures of flame. One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books.” KnowsMindWellsHas BeensBookSoulShowsAttentionOpinionAmountOne DayMountainLowsStonesWarmNakedSmokeFlamesTravelerSignalsExposureLectures Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.” PeopleThinkingBookAmountTopsy Turvy Author:Louisa May Alcott
“For me, the experience of making the show is very much like being in a novel. I enjoy getting the new script. I make a cup of tea and I read it the same way I would read a book, with the same amount of joy.” WayBookShowsJoyEnjoyNovelAmountScriptsCupsTeaCups Of Tea Author:Billy Campbell
“Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.” BookNextAudienceAmountEqualFemaleCriticismMalesClubsReviewsSectionsPublishersGreat AmericanAmerican WriterBook ClubFemales And Males Author:Jami Attenberg
“Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.” WritingBookHardEasyDifficultHard WorkAmountBlogsWriting A BookBlogging Author:Kate Christensen
“I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally. And despite the order and the discipline - and home at certain hours and out at certain hours and reading at certain hours - there was a surprising amount of freedom. Eleanor Roosevelt talks about how the happiest moments of her days were when she would take a book out of the library, which wasn't censored.” ThinkingBookMomentsHomeCertainOrderReadingFatherHoursAmountDisciplineLibraryDespiteGrandmotherHallsSurprisingFamily LoveLike HerReassuranceEleanorCensored Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.” GivingBookCertainTeacherWonderfulAmountDiscourse Author:Sakyong Mipham
“Nobody wanted to publish a book about fairies; they said people wouldn't be interested. Luckily, I discovered Lady Cottington and her pressed fairies, which revived a huge amount of interest in fairies, so I could go ahead and do the book I wanted to do.” PeopleSaidBookWantedInterestHugeAmountFairyThey SaidPublish Author:Brian Froud
“After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half of the century, even though there had obviously been an enormous amount of development, so I read about and thought about that for a couple of years before I decided I was ready for a book.” KnowsYearsFirstsBookWarHalfCenturyReadyDevelopmentAmountCoupleDecidedFinishedI RealizedEnormousPostsCivil WarTycoons Author:Charles R. Morris
“I read a fair amount [of science fiction], and you know it was certainly inspirational. I have to pinch myself to think that we might be able to make some of [what I've read in science fiction books] come true.” ThinkingKnowsBookMightAbleFictionAmountFairsScience Fiction Author:Richard Branson
“If we want to be musicians, dancers or sportspeople, we can download a certain amount and watch DVDs and read books, but in the end we need someone to assess us and give us personal instruction. The two go together.” IfsWantNeedsGivingTwoBookEndsTogetherCertainWatchesAmountMusicianDancerInstructionDvdsDownloads Author:Tenzin Palmo
“When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.” IfsKnowsWritingLooksStillsBookCertainNextAmountPassagesResonanceBook Writing Author:Kate DiCamillo
“[ The Nightingale ]ended up being a huge undertaking - a daunting amount of research on a subject that many people know intimately, a country I had not yet been to when I first started planning the book, an entire war.” PeopleKnowsFirstsBookWarCountrySubjectsHugeAmountResearchPlanningUndertakingsNightingales Author:Megan Chance
“Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new markets for e-book reading devices and other hardware. End-users most of all want a wide range and generous amount of high-quality content for free or at reasonable costs. Like end-users, libraries want quality, quantity, economy, and variety as well as flexible business models.” WantWellsMeanBookEndsReadingQualityCompanyTechnologyEconomyRightsAmountCostModelsFairsManagementLibraryWideVarietyRangeGenerousReasonableDigitalDevicesQuantityUsersPublishersFlexibleCompensationBook ReadingHigh QualityHardwareBusiness ModelsVendors Author:Tom Peters
“I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on it for seven years. I was putting into words the stuff I was teaching, and I was writing it up and thought, "Dude, you're writing a book."” KnowsWritingYearsBookWarStuffClassWrittenTeachingTaughtAmountDrugSevenNonfictionSeven YearsWriting A BookWar On Drugs Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Literate households in the 17th century would have had the Bible, John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," and a couple of other books. Shakespeare plays were cheap, so you could buy those, but a folio cost a pound, which was an incredible amount of money then.” BookPlayProgressCenturyAmountCoupleCostIncrediblesPoundsHouseholdPilgrim17th CenturyShakespeare Play Author:Stephen Greenblatt
“When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in that I wound up with several book review columns, which meant that I had to read huge amounts of stuff that was outside my experience and outside my comfort zone. I think every young writer should be forced to read the kind of stuff they would not normally read for pleasure.” ThinkingMenShouldKindBookKidsYoungStuffPleasureHugeAmountComfortLuckyWoundsYoung ManZoneReviewsComfort ZoneColumnsYoung WritersBook Review Author:Neil Gaiman
“Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.” BookStoriesDifficultHugeAmountPicture Books Author:Renee Watson