Best four & book Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.”

People Writing Trying Children Book Hard Three Four Adults Accepted Exception

Author:R. L. Stine

“Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.”

People Book Can Do Careers Millions Four Share Huge

Author:Sandra Lee

“But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.”

Knows Writing Long Book Enough Three Four New Directions

Author:Daniel Woodrell

“Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.”

Book Four Add Bags Plastic Insects Packages Seals Spray Envelopes

Author:Larry Niven

“I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.”

Way Writing Years Wells I Can Book Four Accomplish Fortunate Distraction Strict Personal Life

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I will read four or five books at the same time.”

Book Five Four

Author:Teri Polo

“I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.”

People Years Book Mother Four Advice Asking Finished Four Years Childbirth

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.”

Years Persons Book Might Young Artist Rooms Education Four Thousand Four Years Blank Blank Canvas

Author:Robert Genn

“The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.”

“The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.”

Years Made Book Stories Half Four Rose Reports

Author:Pete Rose

“I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one... In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money... the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it.”

Giving Writing Trying May Book Stories Bigs Reality Values Reading Goal Novel Five Four Return Illusion Size Short Story

Author:James Clavell

“There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.”

Knows Writing Firsts Two Book Character Three Literature Left Bits Four Months Late Lovely Too Late Plot Left Out New Books Lovely Things Before It's Too Late

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.”

Writing Years Mean Book Able Hours Five Four Fortunate

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try to go behind their constructed myths to find the humanity of the person. It takes me about four years on every book and requires hundreds of interviews so I choose people whose lives I respect and achievements are worth recording.”

People Writing Trying Years Persons Book Humanity Powerful Behinds Four Our Lives Alive Achievement Myth Interviews Take Me Four Years

Author:Kitty Kelley

“One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.”

Knows Has Beens Book War Might Three Courses Economy Four Written Masters Hero Pages Supreme Data Might Have Been My Hero Borges

Author:Peter Greenaway

“Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.”

Wells Book Ideas Four Information Concepts Shadow Infinite Evolve Dimensions Rough Times Approximation

Author:Dan Simmons

“Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact create a labyrinth of a story with four different points of entry. But what interested me was creating something that would rearrange itself every time you read one of the other books. So depending on which order you read them, the implications and angles would change. To get that right, each one of the books had to have its own personality and texture -- even though they are connected, they are very different creatures.”

People Book Different Facts Stories Order Enjoy Four Personality Creatures Creating Pages Connected Angle Realised Implications Texture Monstrous Entry Labyrinth Creating Something

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?”

Years Book Mother Four Calling Newspapers Australia Climbing Four Years Fence Jumping Johnson Flew Aeroplanes 1930s Amy Jumping Off

Author:Nancy Bird Walton

“In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe a hundred panels at most to tell a story, so every panel he wastes conveying a.) something I already know, b.) something that's a cute gag but does nothing to reveal plot or character, or c.) something I don't need to know is a demonstration of lousy craft.”

Knows Needs Doe Book Character Stories Five Four Couple Waste Pages Hundred Shots Average Crafts Comic Cute Plot Comic Book Demonstration Gags Conveying

Author:Mark Waid

“A great deal has been written about personal power by Carlos Casteneda, and I find his first four books valuable. Of the experiences themselves, who knows? But the principles that are presented are quite valuable for one who seeks power.”

Knows Firsts Has Beens Book Deals Principles Four Written Valuable Mysticism Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.”

Years Book Christian Young Three Four Lows Hundred Sitting Edges Miles Eras Range Sand Monk Cliffs Drifting Alexandria Sitting On The Edge

Book:Hypatia ... The second edition

Source: Hypatia ... The second edition

“We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.”

Years Book School Individual Four Trade Titles Budgets Grades Eighth Grade School Years

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.”

Two Book Sides Behinds Four Sea Fronts Rose East Valleys Fourth Cones Citadels

Book:Three Tales

Source: Three Tales

“You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.”

Book Three Forget Healing Cases Taken Four Minutes Ten Doctors Sick Dollars Medicine Medical Physicians Lectures Dissection

Book:FRESH LEAVES

Source: FRESH LEAVES

“I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.”

Children Persons Stills Two Book Character Kids Courses My Own Consciousness Known Four Filled Including Grandchildren Still Life

Author:Lois Lowry

“Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.”

“Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.”

Years Book Class Four Happened Century Fashion Pages England Dresses Moved California Devoted Working Class 19th Century Back When Victorian

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.”

I Can Book Five Four Buying Bookstores

Author:Mireille Guiliano

“I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the Time Warp Trio novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.”

Writing Years Littles Two Book Inspiration School Novel Four Taught Ten Take Me Seconds Flash Apartment Elementary School Warp Trios

Author:Jon Scieszka

“Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for Seesaw Girl, eight months for Shard, three years for When My Name Was Keoko! The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.”

Writing Years Book Different Girl Three Names Half Taken Four Months Eight Length Three Years Four Years Publishers Publish Another Year Seesaw

Author:Linda Sue Park

“The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.”

“We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.”

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.”

People World Should Children Book Stories Running Young Reading Left Grows Growing Up Four Written Hero Our Children Features Abandoned Running Away Ignored Orphan Children's Books Dickens

Author:John Boyne

“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.”

Years Book Three Reading Fiction Four Car Amount Bed Fairs Nonfiction Desks Back And Forth

Author:James Patterson

“My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.”

Men Book America Four Hero Bases Comic Fantastic Captains Comic Book Spiders My Hero Spider Man Marvel Comics Fantastic Four

Author:Walter Mosley

“A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.”

Book Four Dog Series Inspired Borders Farms Sheep Acres Barns Rural Life Collies

Author:Jon Katz

“Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.”

Men Children Littles Book Different Girl Reading Deals Boys Four Daughter Female My Children Reading Books Hurdle

Author:Robert K. Massie

“For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.”

Children Littles Book Three Parent Natural Fiction Four Week Childhood Horror Library Locals Cinema Sci Fi Thrillers Rubber Foam Stools Natural History Devouring Origami

Author:David Nicholls

“I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.”

Book Four Starbucks

Author:Rainbow Rowell

“From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.”

Should Writing Book Ideas Age Consciousness Five Four Grew Six Grew Up Should Have Twenties Down And Settling Abandon Sooner Or Later True Nature Seventeen Settling Down

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays

“I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!”

Knows Should Book Three Attention Knowledge Four Our Lives Tears Band Essentials Paper News Blame Newspapers Pens Insignificant Pascal Insignificant Things

Author:Marcel Proust

“Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.”

Ifs Firsts Kind Book States Stories Loses United United States Novel Four Hero Overcoming Murder Volume Publishers Heroines Spiritualism

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.”

“In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.”

Littles Book Views Known Four Window Village County Carriages Luxurious Welsh High Road Picturesque Small Villages

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.”

Book Film Four Pages Paragraph

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.”

Writing Book Reading Four Right Now Projects

Author:Colette Freedman

“As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them, I don't think readers would know they were by the same author.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Book Lasts Names Four Reader Proud

Author:Jay Neugeboren

“I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my friends, who I'd thought where slightly backward, had been so addicted to these children's books. They're like crack.”

Knows Children Book Four Understood Sitting My Friends Wheels Cracks Auditions Lunatic Children's Books Steering

Author:Jason Isaacs

“I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.”

Writing Book Reason Purpose Three Four Hundred Add Magnificent Estates Acres

Book:White Fang (Arcadia Classics)

Source: White Fang (Arcadia Classics)

“It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.”

Thinking Writing Wells Book Reading Bits Break Five Pieces Four Reader Brilliant Insane Bits And Pieces

Author:Markus Zusak

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