Book Writing Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

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.

The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be a public speaker because she has written a book? Writing is a very private business. I do not know any other occupation which requires so much privacy unless it is a life of prayer or a life of crime.

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

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.

When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

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.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

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.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

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..."

When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging is that you have immediate feedback from commenters.

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.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.