Best giving-up & book Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Book Enough Dream Half Novel Five Giving Up Six Dozen Publishers Turned Down

Author:Ian Rankin

“Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.”

“I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.”

Knows Giving Book Dies Memories Giving Up Nostalgia Keep Going

Book:A History of Reading

Source: A History of Reading

“The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough, before you get smoked! Oh you broke? ( *shots* ) Now you're dead broke" My name is L and I'm from a part of town where clowns, Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds 'Cause at nighttime niggas try to tax, they're sneakier than alley cats, that's why I carry gats”

Giving Trying Book Bigs Names Causes Sound Crazy Cold Taxes Giving Up Beats Shots Cat Towns Down And Broke Pockets Clown Alleys Old Lady Crooks Nighttime Dough Notches Gunshots Top Notch Alley Cats

Author:Big L

“I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.”

Ifs Giving Has Beens Book Joy Reading Memories Fields Giving Up Advantage Gold Pursuit If I Could Occupation Reading Books Explorers Misers

Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“You have to read a lot so you know what good writing looks like and you get inspired. You have to write a lot because it's like a sport - you have to practice. And, also, you have to persevere. Don't give up. I got rejected on my first book, like, 14 times, but I just kept going. So believe in yourself and don't give up.”

Knows Giving Writing Firsts Believe Looks Book Sports Practice Giving Up Inspired Believe In Yourself Rejected Believe In You Persevere Don't Give Up Good Writing

Author:Rick Riordan

“You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted”

Giving Feels Has Beens Book Done Whole Giving Up Printed Don't Give Up

Author:Dee Brown

“Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Writing Wells Looks Book Sometimes Answers Pride Giving Up Good Things Bad Things Don't Give Up

Author:Amy Tan

“I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.”

Knows Giving Long Book Giving Up

Author:Rick Moody

“Keep reading and writing, learn how to revise, and push through rejections. My second book, Monsoon Summer, was rejected over 20 times and finally came out 11 years after my first book! I'm glad I didn't give up. Neither should you.”

Giving Should Writing Years Firsts Book Reading Giving Up Summer Glad Rejection Rejected Reading And Writing Monsoons

Author:Mitali Perkins

“I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.”

Giving Writing Book Groups Inspirational Life Giving Up Organization Fellows Nine Publishing Conferences Critique Hooked

Author:Beth Revis

“Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time". Not just for interviews but of footage, photographs never seen before. It is a painstaking process that satisfies me. The research never ends. I was still researching while I was promoting the Diana Vreeland book. I love reading books and going to original sources.”

“There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the church has never experienced since the Book of Acts.”

Giving Book Church Huge Giving Up Pockets Harvest Reap

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to the university, I just couldn't reconcile that book and some of its points of view with stuff I was learning in my academic career. And so then you have a choice: either you give up your academic career and close your mind and become a constant fundamentalist, or you give up your religion and become a citizen of the modern world and get a modern education, or just spend the rest of your life balancing the two things together, forcing them into a dialogue.”

“I always knew from the beginning that this was the only way to write Then We Came To The End - that it had to be in first - person plural if it was going to illustrate how the individual becomes part of the collective. I had no interest in writing the book in a more conventional voice. It goes back to that fascination I had with telling a story in multiple ways. It was the only choice I gave myself, really - I said "This is it, pal. If you can't tell a story this way, you're going to have to abandon the book. Write it this way or give up."”

Giving Writing Book Choices Individual Interest Giving Up Abandon Multiple

Author:Joshua Ferris

“I think attempting to make art is a utopian process in itself, definitely. Nothing I do is ever equal to the ideas in my head. You do the best you can, you do it with patience and love, and then you give up. The moment you give up is when you know the book is done.”

Thinking Giving Art Book Done Moments Equal Giving Up Art Is Utopian

Author:Lauren Groff

“Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.”

Giving Should Book Lasts Prayer Dying Giving Up

Book:The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia

Source: The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”

Inspirational Giving Book Reading Secret Giving Up Good Book Don't Give Up

Book:Stephen King Goes to the Movies

Source: Stephen King Goes to the Movies

“When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.”

Giving Persons Book Reason Past Certain Reading Gone Study Giving Up Understood Confused

Book:Handbook for Preclears

Source: Handbook for Preclears

“And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?”

Giving Book Giving Up Smell Consent Open Book

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.”

Giving Writing May Mean Book Reason Stories Happens Care Reading Differences Answers Reader Giving Up Don't Care Caring Cruelty Good Story Not Caring

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error that there will always be time for it later....Take the long-dreamed-of trip, learn this language, read those books, buy yourself this jewelry, spend a night in that famous hotel. Don't miss out on yourself. Bigger things are also part of that: to give up the loathed profession, break out of a hated milieu. Do what contributes to making you more genuine, moves you closer to yourself.”

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