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“I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.”

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Author:Don Winslow

“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.”

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Author:Marie Calloway

“I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.”

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Author:David Bezmozgis

“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

“The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length of time it takes to write a book, the publisher and the readers can and will come later.”

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Author:Patricia Highsmith

“Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around and walk around. Apparently people often see me standing there and they wave to me and I don't see them because I am reading the landscape.”

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Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write them in this book. Grab a separate sheet of paper. I didn't spend two and a half weeks writing a book just so you could mark up the pages with your silly ideas for things you can do with a flowerpot. When it comes down to it, what's wrong with a flowerpot not being a flowerpot? Why is nothing ever good enough for you?”

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Author:Amy Sedaris

“It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up of his collection of books almost invariably follows; the building up of a good library, the work of a lifetime, has been so much labour lost, so far as future generations are concerned. Talent, yes, and genius too, are displayed not only in writing books but also in buying them, and it is a pity that the ruthless hammer of the auctioneer should render so much energy and skill fruitless.”

Source: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)

“Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.”

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Author:Nancy Spain

“Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.”

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Author:Ruth Ozeki

“Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.”

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Author:Thomas Lennon

“The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.”

“Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.”

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Author:Phyllis A. Whitney

“I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.”

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Author:Gene Wilder

“Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love.”

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Author:Annie Dillard

“I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.”

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Author:Molly Ringwald

“Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.”

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“There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do.”

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Author:Michelle Tea

“I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.”

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Author:Mark Haddon

“I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.”

“I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.”

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Author:Hilary Liftin

“Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.”

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Author:James Altucher

“The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.”

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Author:Jasper Fforde

“Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.”

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Author:Kami Garcia

“I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood. We all want that, deep down inside - and writing a book is a great way to make sense of your own experience and to share it with others.”

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Author:Shakti Gawain

“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves”

Source: The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

“I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“Oliver North says he is very upset that John Walker could come back to this country and cash in on his celebrity status. He hates to see someone who did something wrong get rewarded by writing a book or getting a TV show out of it.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.”

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Author:Aime Cesaire

“I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.”

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Book:Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)

“Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.”

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!"”

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Author:Lewis Black

“When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.”

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Author:Larry Winget

“I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I've written many short stories with realistic settings, and I certainly wouldn't rule out realistic novels in the future!”

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Author:Cassandra Clare

“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”

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Author:Lillian Hellman

“I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now I'm writing a book, now I'm being an actor. It should be a natural thing. I think it's a natural thing for you to act. But I think that people that feel that, because they've written one maybe quite beautiful love song that equips them to play Romeo, is probably misguided.”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.”

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Author:Richard Bach

“[Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will have an editor, but their job is to help you clarify or improve your voice, not change it.”

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Author:Liz Tuccillo

“Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on earning you a living without you doing any more work on it. It's absolutely ideal for an idler.”

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Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!”

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Author:Zach Galifianakis

“Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.”

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Author:Laverne Cox

“When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd kept the handwritten text. I recall some of the story, but it was a start into the world of writing.”

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Author:Franny Armstrong

“My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.”

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Author:James Scott Bell

“I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."”

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Author:Eve Bunting

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