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“My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.”

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Author:V. S. Naipaul

“Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”

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Author:John Steinbeck

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”

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Author:Herman Melville

“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”

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Author:Truman Capote

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.”

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Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.”

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Author:Agatha Christie

“The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.”

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Book:Literary Studies: The first Edinburgh reviewers (1855) Hartley Coleridge (1852) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1856) Shakespeare the man (1853) John Milton (1859) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1862) William Cowper (1855) Appendices; Letters on the French coup d̓etat

Source: Literary Studies: The first Edinburgh reviewers (1855) Hartley Coleridge (1852) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1856) Shakespeare the man (1853) John Milton (1859) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1862) William Cowper (1855) Appendices; Letters on the French coup d̓etat

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.”

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Author:Bill Mumy

“When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.”

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Author:Michael Crichton

“My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.”

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Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes”

“Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.”

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Author:Donna Tartt

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman

“I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and trying to rewrite it.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman

“The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.”

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Author:Larry McMurtry

“Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.”

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Book:Selected Writings: 1927-1934

Source: Selected Writings: 1927-1934

“One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.”

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Author:Rachel Field

“Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.”

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Author:Jerry B. Jenkins

“The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman