Best Writing A Book Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!”

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“...if he can write a book at all, a writer cannot do it by peeping over his shoulder at somebody else, any more than a woman can have a baby by watching some other woman have one. It is a genital process, and all of its stages are intra-abdominal;”

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Book:The Butterfly

Source: The Butterfly

“Stay within the confines of your chosen topic. If you start to stray away from your topic and find an urge to showcase everything that you know, resist that urge. Remember that you are writing a book, not the book.”

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Book:The Author's Blueprint

Source: The Author's Blueprint

“The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end.”

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Book:Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

Source: Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

“Writing at its foundation stone is the transmutation of personal experience into thought and weaving intricate patterns of thoughts into graphic scenes.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“There's nothing that requires you to think more deeply than to write a book. (Interview with Chris Williamson)”

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Author:Jordan B. Peterson

“Writing a second book is not like writing the first. I don't mean that every book is different, though of course there's an element of that. The crucial difference is that when you write your first book, you don't have a publisher, which means you don't have a deadline. Deadlines-well. Deadlines put a whole new spin on this writing lark.”

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Book:The Missing Years

Source: The Missing Years

“Is it based on a true story? Yes. However, all names have been changed to protect those who think they are innocent.”

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Author:Helen Edwards

“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

“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.”

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Author:James Rollins

“I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.”

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Author:Karrine Steffans

“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.”

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Author:Asne Seierstad

“Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.”

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Author:R. A. Salvatore

“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.”

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Author:Donald Miller

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.”

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Author:Shereen El Feki

“Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.”

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Author:Adam Clymer

“The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!”

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Author:Novalis

“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.”

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Author:George Carlin

“The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.”

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Author:Art Buchwald

“I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.”

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Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.”

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Author:Evelyn Lau

“I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.”

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Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.”

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Author:Thomas P. Campbell

“For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.”

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Book:With Borges

Source: With Borges

“I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.”

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Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

“I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.”

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Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.”

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Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing books about the living to the unborn (tucked away as Literature) or writing books about the unborn to the living (whiffed away as prophecy). I put up my life on advertising the living to the living, on making men of genius known to the people and interpreted to their time, that the time in which I live, may live face to face with its men of vision and that they may live face to face with one another.”

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Book:The House of Twenty Seven Gardens

Source: The House of Twenty Seven Gardens

“We never like to miss an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of our life. That's why I never like to have a service without giving an invitation or writing a book, without giving an invitation and presenting that truth. I believe this is the whole key to living your best life, living a fulfilled life or becoming a better you.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.”

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Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”

Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings

“Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.”

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Author:Clive Barker

“I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.”

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Author:William Gibson

“The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.”

“I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.”

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Author:Alan Hollinghurst

“It's great to be excited by your profession, whether you are a doctor or a writer. I started writing books when I was in medical school and, by the time I graduated, I realized that writing was more exciting to me than being a doctor. And if I tried to be a doctor and a writer, then both would suffer.”

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Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.”

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Author:China Mieville

“The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.”

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Author:Ashly Lorenzana

“I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.”

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Author:Genevieve Gorder

“We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?”

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Author:Walter Matthau

“Writing a book is an adventure.”

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Book:Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches

Source: Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches

“I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.”

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Author:Erica Jong

“Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.”

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Book:The collected plays

Source: The collected plays

“By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.”

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Author:Michael Ian Black

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