Michael Lewis Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that I'm compelled to go back to them over and over until I learn more and more about them, without even quite thinking it's material for a book.

  Michael Lewis

  Book, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

  Michael Lewis

  Book, Writing, Affection

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

• My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.

  Michael Lewis

  Husband, Book, Home

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

• You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

  Michael Lewis

  Book, Writing, Ambition

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

• I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me me as totally preposterous-which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from.

  Michael Lewis

  Brother, Jobs, Book

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

• It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.

  Michael Lewis

  Pain, Book, Writing

• Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

  Michael Lewis

  Book, Hollywood, Want

  "The Big Short: author Michael Lewis on 'betting on Armageddon' during the global financial crisis; making of star-studded new film". Interview with Hayden Cooper, www.abc.net.au. January 14, 2016.

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