Best writing & writing-a-book Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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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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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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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Source: The House of Twenty Seven Gardens

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