On Writing A Book Quotes

On Writing A Book Quote of the day

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

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.

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

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

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!

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.

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

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.

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.

I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Writing a book is an adventure.

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.

I'm supposed to be writing a book, and I can hardly read.

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old! I do plan on the near future writing a book, that is definitely in the plans for my career.

I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.

I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.

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

That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did it without any ego involved and that you did it for somebody else. That's the best you can do.

My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.