Writing A Book Quotes - Page 7

• A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Book, Writing, Men

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that's best for us." Do you really believe that, Mother?" Peter asked quietly. Yes," she said, "I do believe it--almost always--except when I'm so sad that I can't believe anything. But even when I don't believe it, I know it's true--and I try to believe it.

  E. Nesbit

  Mother, Mistake, Nice

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• If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you're trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you'll find that no job is all that intimidating.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Running, New Year, Jobs

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• Remember, don't start trying to relax; that is the most absurd thing in the world. And there are many stupid people writing books about relaxation. I have come across one book - the name of the book is YOU MUST RELAX! Now that very word 'must' is enough to keep you tense. Relaxation cannot be a "must," it cannot be an effort.

  Rajneesh

  Stupid, Book, Writing

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• Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Kids

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• Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your heart. You get the tone, and the fingers will follow.

  Eddie Cahill

  Book, Writing, Heart

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• I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Book, Writing, Worry

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• Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Lonely, Memories, Loneliness

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• Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It's a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Book, Writing, Animal

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2010.

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• Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way…Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'

  James Hillman

  Children, Military, Book

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• Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Writing, Years

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• My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.

  Walter Kirn

  Dream, New York, Book

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• I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years - the way the world thinks about economic problems.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Writing, Epidemics

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• It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not War - we were idealistic innocents, darling, despite the drugs and sex. We were sweet lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works. None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

  Margot Kidder

  Sweet, Sex, War

  “No kidding” by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Lying, Book, Writing

  Rosemary Clement-Moore (2011). “Texas Gothic”, p.119, Random House

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• ...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.

  Donald Knuth

  Book, Writing, Learning

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• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Wrestling, Writing

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• These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story.

  Elmore Leonard

  Book, Writing, Stories

  Elmore Leonard (2009). “Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing”, Harper Collins

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• I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Book, Writing

  "Oprah Talks to Daniel Pink". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2008.

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• If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

  William H. Gass

  Book, Writing, Would Be

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

  Elmore Leonard

  Book, Writing, Please

  "Elmore Leonard’s Secret: 'Clean Living, and a Fast Outfield'". Interview with Jon Wiener, lareviewofbooks.org. August 20, 2013.

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• Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.

  Chris Matthews

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 13, 2009.

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• Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.

  Lynn Johnston

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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• We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

  Alexander Kluge

  Book, Writing, Television

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