Book Writing Quotes (page 2)

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• night
• book
• people

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. Bette Midler

• strong
• writing
• book

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. Helen Dunmore

• book
• people
• personality

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them. Peter Ustinov

• different
• experience
• writing

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me. Mary Wesley

• book
• writing
• job

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again. Stephen Collins

• adulting
• respect
• writing

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. Mark Haddon

• book
• waiting
• writing

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis

• confidence
• book
• writing

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. Emile M. Cioran

• book
• men
• writing

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. Norman Mailer

• book
• children
• writing

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. Norman Macleod

• book
• writing
• wishes

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. Wole Soyinka

• business
• book
• world

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

• writing
• relationship
• dad

Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad. Dexter S. King

• jokes
• writing
• couple

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there. Willie Nelson

• crying
• tomorrow
• help

Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you have been trying to find but have not found. But write. And remember, there are no rules for our profession. Ignore rules. Ignore what I say here if it doesn't help you. Do it your own way. Every writer knows fear and discouragement. Just write. The world is crying for new writing. It is crying for fresh and original voices and new characters and new stories. If you won't... Anne Rice