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“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

“It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.”

People Giving Writing Kind Real Able Song Three Draws Pops Brilliant Chords Great People Pop Song

Author:Regina Spektor

“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

“Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.”

Writing Years Remember Three Type Grandmother Three Years Electric Florida My Grandmother Visiting Typewriters Ibm Three Year Olds

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.”

Needs Feels Writing Trying I Can Three Hours Week Theory Like You Distraction Defence Procrastinating Spades

Author:Markus Zusak

“It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.”

Writing Wanted Three Week Blue Inspired Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.”

Writing Trying I Can Sometimes Hard Song Three Simple Down And Chords Messed Up

Author:Sondre Lerche

“Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.”

Writing Wells Different Film Three Courses Process Written Shooting Three Times Edits

Author:Stephen Daldry

“Of every four words I write, I strike out three.”

Writing Three Four Strikes Editing

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.”

Writing Years Firsts Made Book Three Five Lucky Husband Five Years Three Years Housewife

Author:Judith Perelman Rossner

“Keep a gratitude journal. Write down at least three things a day you are either thankful for, made you smile or genuinely inspired you.”

Writing Made Three Gratitude Inspired Journal Three Things

Author:Robert Holden

“I have a very beautiful room in my house... It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and... I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.”

Thinking Feels Writing Ends Beautiful Three House Sides Perfect Rooms Nice Office Glasses Exposed Bedroom Distracted Very Nice Very Beautiful Three Sides

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.”

Ifs Writing Looks Mean Doe Ideas School Form Certain Three Half Plans Doors Painting Expression Models Draws Remains Drawing Painter Interiors

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.”

Writing Three Hours Six Pages Eight Satisfied Agony

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.”

People Writing Made Would Be Political Humanity Three Century Materials Projects Defined Flawed Crooked Timber

Author:George Will

“For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.”

Men Writing Wells Three Style Exercise Speakers

Author:Ben Jonson

“There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.”

Men Writing Two Done Running Life Is Three Lines Three Things

Book:The Computer Contradictionary

Source: The Computer Contradictionary

“Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.”

Ifs Writing Years Young Three Acting Arms Periods Promise Weight Victim Seven Settling Mature Judged Platforms Unfortunate Rope Seven Years Young Writers Hangman Nooses

Book:Enemies of Promise

Source: Enemies of Promise

“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.”

Writing May Children Art Two Book Lasts Three Nations Common Race Genius Understood Fortune Deeds Autobiography Good Fortune Trustworthy Manuscripts Triumphant Great Nations

Author:John Ruskin

“When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.”

Thinking Feels Writing Firsts Looks Song Three Pieces Four Mountain Paper Pressure Climbs Blank Belts

Author:Martin Gore

“I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.”

Men Giving Writing Looks Two Book Three Longing Everyday Missions

Author:Elvis Costello

“My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during these god-awful hours like three to six in the morning. It wasn't a very difficult job -- all I had to do was make a round every fifteen minutes -- but it turned out to be a great environment for writing. I was completely alone in a little outhouse with an electric heater and a little desk.”

Writing Firsts Littles Jobs Three Difficult Hours Morning Environment Minutes Six Rivers Rounds East Awful Agency Electric Fifteen Desks Coal Detectives Barges

Author:Sam Shepard

“Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.”

Writing Three Practice Conviction Sentences Breathe Zone Unshakable Three Words Time Zones

Author:Stanley Fish

“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

“You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.”

Writing May Has Beens Three Lines One Day Hundred Twenties Good Work One More Day

Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example.”

Writing Kind Character Use Three Audience Example Emotional Argument Speakers Persuasion Three Things Ethos Logos Pathos Receptivity Personal Character

Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition

Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition

“To write three series a year you only need to commit to writing 10 pages per day, or editing 50 pages of text per day. Plus, writing is my job, and I need to write to eat, so I'm highly motivated to get up and get to work!”

Needs Writing Years Jobs Three Pages Series Commit Get Up Plus Motivated Editing

Author:Victoria Laurie

“For several years I've been writing 100-word pieces. More recently I've been putting them together in groups of two and three. I don't see them as sequences, but rather as companion pieces, the way that diptychs often work. The idea comes originally from the paintings of Michael Venezia who places blocks of painted wood next to each other. Proximity is a godsend. The quote is from Wallace Stevens.”

Way Writing Years Two Ideas Together Three Next Pieces Groups Painting Woods Block Companion Sequence Proximity

Author:Jim Moore

“I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive at the door containing three months (along with an extra bonus sunny weekend for being a good customer).”

Writing Three Wish Doors Months Boxes Customers Extras Brown Weekend Sunny Three Months Bonus Containing Cheques Cardboard Boxes

Author:Neil Gaiman

“There are three distinct kind of judges upon all new authors or productions; the first are those who know no rules, but pronounce entirely from their natural taste and feelings; the second are those who know and judge by rules; and the third are those who know, but are above the rules. These last are those you should wish to satisfy. Next to them rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed by the rules.”

Knows Should Writing Firsts Kind Feelings Lasts Three Next Wish Natural Opinion Judging Taste Thirds Rate Productions Despise

Book:The critical opinions of Samuel Johnson

Source: The critical opinions of Samuel Johnson

“I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.”

“Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.”

People Writing Two Book Funny Together Three Baby Superfluous

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself.”

Thinking Writing Trying Three Process Creative Months Periods Pure Messages Down And Worthy Creative Process Composition Three Months

Author:John Zorn

“You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.”

Should Writing Shows Lying Three Cases Humility Ads Resumes Obituary Write Your Own

Author:David Hayden

“Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly simple expedient of the iceberg principle - three-fourths of the substance under the surface. He comes closer that way to retaining the magic of the original, unexpressed idea or emotion, which is always more stirring than any words. But just try and do it!”

Way Writing Trying Ideas Soul Seems Three Simple Emotion Principles Magic Exciting Originals Surface Substance Damn Positively Stirring Iceberg Retaining

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea, have sputtered out and died by chapter three. For me, novels have invariably come from a complex of ideas that in the beginning seemed to bear no relation to each other, but in the unconscious began mysteriously to merge and grow. Ideas for a novel are like the strong guy lines of a spider web. Without them the silken web cannot be spun.”

Writing Ideas Matter Stories Guy Three Strong Grows Born Lines Novel Bears Relation Died Complexes Unconscious Chapters Spiders Terrific Spun Spider Web

Author:Katherine Paterson

“After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.”

Men Writing Long Book Able Three Next Accepting Long Time Tradition Males Questioning Time Spent Honorary Learning How To Write

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.”

Ifs Writing Wells I Can Done Play Three Hours My Own Five One Day Cost Mood Well Being Lunch Going Out Worth It Days Off Not Worth It

Author:Danielle Steel

“You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.”

Way Writing Two Play Three Type Pages Notebook Transfers Typewriters

Author:Neil Simon

“Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.”

People Ifs Writing Years Two Book Matter Would Be Three No Matter What What If Impatient

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.”

Men Writing Kids Three Can Do Wife Husband My Wife One Man Preaching Good Husband

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“There's just something "off" about equating the act of spending three years writing a book with the act of someone exploiting themselves by drunkenly flashing the camera for "Girls Gone Wild" or something.”

Writing Years Book Girl Three Gone Cameras Spending Three Years Writing A Book

Author:Marie Calloway

“Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle.”

Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange

“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.”

Writing Years Doe Book Dream Eye Lasts Fall Three House Black Havens Hair Broken Goes On Ten Letters Obstacles Spells Three Years Devoted New Books Unwritten Black Eyes Shambles

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.”

Writing Littles Made Play Three Lines Tragedy Gates Scenarios Informers

Book:The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies

Source: The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies

“It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.”

Writing Three Sound Hours Four Shameful

Author:Anne Bernays

“In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.”

Writing Three Numbers Satisfying

Book:Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds

Source: Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds

“Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.”

Writing Kind Made Ends Play Kids Wanted Three Term Interest Creativity Rocks Band Decided Singers Neighborhood Rock Bands

Author:Dennis Cooper

“Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way to think about what a lot of us - writers and other artists - do every day. Step one is to recognize the problem, step two is deciding what constraints you want to impose or respect, and step three is finding a pleasing/surprising/exciting solution.”

Thinking Way Want Writing Trying Two Book Problem Artist Three Steps Findings Solutions Exciting Solve One Way Surprising Puzzles Constraints

Author:Peter Turchi

“I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.”

Writing Years Two Three Courses Accounts Alcohol Three Years Addict Good Writing Great Writing Things You Love

Book:The Best American Poetry 2015

Source: The Best American Poetry 2015

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