Michael Lewis Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

  Michael Lewis

  Writing, Thinking, Careers

• Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

  Michael Lewis

  Girl, Communication, Writing

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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 didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

  Michael Lewis

  Wall, Writing, Thinking

• I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.

  Michael Lewis

  Writing, Self, Loathing

  "Magic and Self-Loathing in Berkeley: Michael Lewis on Becoming a Writer". Interview with Alicia Whitaker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2010.

• 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

• 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.

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