“The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.” ThinkingWantGivingFeelsWritingBookMillionsReaderThousandPressureTemptedGood BookReplicate Author:Jo Nesbo
“God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingTryingYearsHumansHeartHas BeensBookNaturalSecretThousandPreservesContributionThousand YearsHuman HeartNatural History Author:August Strindberg
“When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.” WorldWritingTwoWarLinesFiveThousandPagesWar Of The WorldsGasConcentrationCampsChamberSecond World WarConcentration CampDeportationGas Chambers Author:Jean-Marie Le Pen
“All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.” WantWritingReadingBitsMissingThousandProseModestGood WritingGood Reading Book:Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate Source: Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate
“Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.” WayWritingMindMeanSoulBodyForceWishMagicThousandDrawsLettersDistanceSilentDivisionAbsentPowAbsent Friends Author:Aaron Hill
“If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.” PeopleIfsWritingMotivationalWatchesAlivePlayerFieldsThousandPaidTwentiesChosenInstructionTrappedSpectatorsEightyEdits Author:Seth Godin
“Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.” WorldWritingHeartSongThousandBe Encouraged Book:Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy Source: Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy