Book Writing Quotes - Page 3

• The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Grief, Dirty, Book

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• I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.

  Bill Mumy

  Book, Writing, Years

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• When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Writing, Shoes

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

  Anthony Trollope

  Book, Writing, Men

  Anthony Trollope, David Skilton (1996). “An autobiography”, Penguin Group USA

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

  Donna Tartt

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Book, Writing, Years

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• I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and trying to rewrite it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sorry, Book, Writing

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• The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Writing, Animal

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• Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.488, Harvard University Press

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• One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

  Rachel Field

  Book, Writing, Old Friends

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• Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Book, Writing, Poetry Is

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• Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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