Book Writing Quotes
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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
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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.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
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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.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.
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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.
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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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.
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I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking over your editor's shoulder, and that's the story. It's right there. I can show it to you because it's on paper.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.
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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
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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.
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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
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I was reluctant to talk about my kids on the blog. I kept telling myself, "People aren't coming here for stories about your kids. They want to hear about the upcoming books, writing advice, conventions..."
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
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Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
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The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes
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