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“Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.”

Ifs Wells Book Names Vulgar

Author:Mary MacLane

“There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.”

Ifs Feels Years Book Happens Happened Lucky Twenties

Author:Norman MacCaig

“If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.”

Ifs Men Giving Book Would Be Months Birth Periods Gestation Gestation Period

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“I really enjoy making sure the kids get a healthy dinner, a good bath and several books... I really like to try and end the day with some quality time with my kids. If not, I feel guilty.”

Ifs Feels Trying Book Ends Kids Enjoy Quality Healthy Dinner Guilty Baths Quality Time

Author:Norah O'Donnell

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Wells Mean I Can Important Book Reason Done Happens Enjoy Written Huge Amount Planning Relax Chapters Outlines

Author:R. L. Stine

“Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.”

Ifs Book Education College Gains College Education

Author:LL Cool J

“I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.”

Ifs Feels Book Eye Science Brain Half Saws Seeing His Eyes

Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

“I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even by one competent judge, it will be a considerable step in science. I therefore write this, in case of my sudden death, as my most solemn & last request, which I am sure you will consider the same as if legally entered in my will, that you will devote 400£ to its publication & further will yourself, or through Hensleigh [Wedgwood], take trouble in promoting it.”

Source: On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection

“You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.”

Ifs Way Want Writing Book Happens Special Ambition

Author:Michael Lewis

“If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.”

Ifs Two Book Character Film Hours Pages Scripts

Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Book Class Creative Advice Approach Brilliant Not Sure Creative Writing Suitable

Author:Ian Rankin

“I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.”

Ifs Book Written Draws Down And Strikes

Author:Amy Ray

“Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.”

Ifs Writing Book Reason Seems Doors Interviews Request Writing A Book

Author:James Rollins

“I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.”

Ifs Knows Book Enough Might Reading Literature Term Vampire Gateways

Author:Josh Radnor

“You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Book Areas Physics Chemistry Particles Geology Particle Physics

Author:Mary Roach

“Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.”

Ifs Want Feels Book Feelings Responsibility Series Strikes Satisfied Feel Good Viewers How You Feel Finale

Author:Shawn Ryan

“You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.”

Ifs Book Humor Might Funny Values Comedy Blue Gas Truck Up And Down Redneck Blue Eyes You Might Be A Redneck If Redneck Humor Funny Redneck Blue Book

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.”

Ifs Way Writing Book Loses Accepting Okay My Way Writing A Book

Author:Asne Seierstad

“In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Book Would Be Twenties Fourth

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.”

Ifs Want Book Seems Next Literature Willing Kings Picks Let Me Selling Editors Want Me

Author:Fred Saberhagen

“With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.”

Ifs Looks Kind Book Scene Pops Setting Settings

Author:John Sandford

“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.”

“I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.”

Ifs Writing Book Character Moving Purpose Behinds Reader Comfortable Pages Ultimate Smell Block Novelists Plot Outlines Phony Plausible Synopsis

Author:Clive Cussler

“If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.”

Ifs Writing Book Ends

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Should Book Ends Enough Stuff Hours Five Too Much Cutting Adapted

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.”

Ifs Book Masters

Author:Richard Serra

“I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.”

Ifs Knows Book Lasts Turns Deals Written Asking Decades Good Book

Author:Stacy Schiff

“Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.”

Ifs Knows Wells Book Fool Method Radical Administration Cunning Rules For Radicals

Author:Jon Voight

“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Book Hands Impress

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.”

Ifs Writing Book Might Romance Culture Names Forget Lucky Paper Pops Lists Ignorant Spells Topics Lit Fascination Pop Culture Chicks New Yorkers

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.”

Ifs Writing Mean Book Bigs Social Consciousness Pieces Good Writers Small Pieces Big Book Social Consciousness Undertow

Author:Marguerite Young

“I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.”

Ifs Book Fiction Happened Biographies Non Fiction Greatest Book

Author:Richard Lewis

“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.”

Ifs Want Should Writing Years Long Book Real Ends Wanted Dies Novel Impossible Goes On Tradition Tragedy Wounds Real Life Scar Conventional Happy Endings Old Wounds

Author:Willa Cather

“It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.”

Ifs Book Quotations Career Success

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.”

Ifs Writing Book Quitting If I Could Writing A Book

Author:Donald Miller

“Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.”

Ifs Want Writing Book Can Do Vices Comic Comic Book Vice Versa

Author:Grant Morrison

“Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.”

Ifs Thinking Way Book Pleasure Discipline Vices Gamble Vice Versa Undisciplined Kraken

Author:China Mieville