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“I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.”

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Author:Stedman Graham

“The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes”

“All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.”

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Author:Brian Koppelman

“We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.”

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Author:Alexander Kluge

“Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.”

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Author:Lynn Johnston

“Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.”

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Author:Lisa Whelchel

“I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.”

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Author:Hilaire Belloc

“If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.”

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Book:Conversations with William H. Gass

Source: Conversations with William H. Gass

“I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.”

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Author:Daniel H. Pink

“As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.”

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Author:Donna Tartt

“An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.”

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Author:Umberto Eco

“I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.”

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Author:Dave Eggers

“There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.”

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Author:Pamela Druckerman

“I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.”

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Author:Franka Potente

“The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.”

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Author:Betty Dravis

“But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and authorship is lost. That's why you're seeing superstars like Brad Pitt in THE FIGHT CLUB and Tom Cruise in MAGNOLIA. They're desperately searching for people writing and directing off-formula movies.”

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Author:Paul Schrader

“I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.”

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Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.”

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Author:Johnny Vegas

“The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.”

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Book:The Abundance

Source: The Abundance

“These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story.”

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Book:Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

Source: Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

“But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.”

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Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.”

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Author:Ben H. Winters

“A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one.”

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Book:Conversations with John Steinbeck

Source: Conversations with John Steinbeck

“Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.”

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Author:Justin Halpern

“Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that's a lot of hours spent thinking about a single project. I simply have to love the idea. I'll go through dozens of workable ideas until I find the one that lights my fire.”

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Author:Kristin Hannah

“A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.”

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Book:Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991

Source: Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991

“I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.”

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Author:Anthony Storr

“My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.”

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Author:John Grisham

“I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.”

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Author:Shirley Knight

“The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.”

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Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.”

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Author:Judy Blume

“Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.”

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Author:Aidan Chambers

“And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.”

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Author:Bernard Cornwell

“I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.”

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Author:Stephen Chbosky

“Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.”

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Author:Jack Kent Cooke

“Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.”

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Author:Stephen Collins

“I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.”

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Author:Upamanyu Chatterjee

“There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.”

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Author:Alexandra Fuller

“The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.”

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Author:Berry Gordy

“I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.”

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Author:Monica Ali

“Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.”

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Author:Bruce Feiler

“I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.”

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Author:Rachel Dratch

“I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.”

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Book:I Can't Believe I Said That!

Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!

“I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.”

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Author:J. A. Jance

“It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.”

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Author:Neil Jordan