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“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.”

Writing Hate Policy Pages I Hate Bizarre Protective Exclusion

Book:The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House

Source: The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House

“I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. After a while I arrive at an accommodation: Well, it's not the ideal, it's not the perfect object I wanted to make, but maybeif I go ahead and finish it anywayI can get it right next time. Maybe I can have another chance.”

Ifs World Want Wells Made I Can Book Wanted Hate Turns Next Chance Perfect Objects Color Ten Pages Ideals I Hate Made It Next Time Discouraging Another Chance Accommodations

Author:Joan Didion

“By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.”

Writing Book Done Lasts Hate Half Five Week Pages Sticks Other Half Rewriting

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in the way of art.... What did they do but illustrate a page or so of the New Testament! They themselves think they have a monopoly in the line. I am dead tired of their bello and bellezza.”

Thinking Way Art Hate Lines Pages Sick I Hate Tired Italian Testament Monopoly New Testament

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.”

Way Writing Book Hate Pages I Hate Library Pale Sticker Scissors Folding

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I'd tax the Daily Mail [if I were a Prime Minister] so high no one could afford to buy it. I hate that paper, I think it's really vicious. I picked one up the other day and every single page is about hate. It's just so negative.”

Ifs Thinking Hate Taxes Paper Pages Negative I Hate Ministers Prime Mail Prime Minister Vicious Daily Mail

Author:Jason Flemyng

“People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.”

People Writing Book Hate Wish Pages Good Book

Author:Steve Earle

“Most people hate that their mum has a Facebook page, but I love that my mum does.”

People Doe Hate Pages Mum Facebook Page

Author:Miley Cyrus

“I hate to lose, and if anybody gets used to losing they are going to be a loser. I'd like to tell you losing is part of the game, and it is, but I hated it. I still hate to lose. And that will never change. By the way, just because I turned the page and poured all my energies into business does not mean that I don't miss organized sports. I do.”

Ifs Way Mean Doe Stills Used Hate Games Energy Sports Loses Missing Pages Losing I Hate Hated Organized Loser Never Change Organized Sports

Author:Donald Trump

“Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.”

Different Hate Three Stuff Four Pages I Hate Useless Lazy Overwhelming Pasta Menus Appetizers Entrees

Author:Joe Bastianich

“Honestly, I hate Facebook - it has nothing on Myspace. I loved how weird and crappy and wild and trashy it was. Then there was the whole culture of pimping out your Myspace page. I remember spending 10 hours one day learning how to make our Myspace page look more like a message board from the mid-90s.”

Looks Whole Remember Hate Culture Hours One Day Messages Pages I Hate Spending Honestly Boards Pimping

Author:Alex Scally

“I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.”

People Firsts Ends Stories Wanted Lasts Mother Hate Reading Novel Strange Habit Pages I Hate Reading Habits

Author:Alice Hoffman

“I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.”

Writing Use Hate Stuff Pages Accounts I Hate Familiar Facebook Page Personal Stuff

Author:Elon Musk

“I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.”

People Writing May Hate White Pieces Paper Pages Starting Agents Fooled

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.”

“You wrote this right?” he said. “It tells how to defeat Set.” Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. “Oh, dear. I hate reading my old work. Look at this sentence. I’d never write it that way now.” He patted his lab coat pockets. “Red pen—does anyone have one?” Isis chafed against my willpower, insisting that we blast some sense into Thoth. One fireball, she pleaded. Just one enormous magical fireball? I couldn’t say I was tempted, but I kept her under control. “Since when does drool make you powerful?”

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

“Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.”

Way Ends Hate Opportunity Greater Teacher Our Lives Fashion Amount Ten Waste Pages Deserve Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Episodes Volume Crash Don't Waste Your Time

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Covers, so many covers, so many different, delectable pictures, and although, metaphorically speaking, it is the thing I hate most, when it comes to literature I always judge books by their covers. First the cover will catch my eye, then I read the back of the book, and then finally the first page.”

Firsts Book Different Eye Hate Literature Judging Pages I Hate Things I Hate Delectable

Book:Jemima J: A Novel

Source: Jemima J: A Novel

“Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.”

People Men Love Giving Trying Kind Different Seems Age Law Hate Turns Moral One Thing Worst Pages I Hate Claims Dare Love Life Cowardice Rare Things Mimicry Agoraphobia

Author:Andre Gide

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