Nick Tosches Quotes
When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.Nick Tosches
Quotes to Explore
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser -
We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle -
I never read about photography.
Sally Mann -
My mother taught me to read.
Fiona Shaw
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
P. J. Harvey -
I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.
J. A. Konrath -
I would read all day if I could.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
Gary Vaynerchuk -
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben
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I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James -
You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
L'Wren Scott -
I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
Kate Mosse -
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
Carl Hiaasen -
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
Pat Conroy -
I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
Karen Kingsbury
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
Gary Jennings -
We become comfortable saying that there's nothing new, and then something like Malarky comes along, which is new and old and different and familiar, but ultimately itself, comfortable in its own skin, wise and smart and crazy-sexy or maybe sexy-crazy-well, you just have to read it to understand. It's a novel that sets its own course, sure and steady, even when it seems like it might be about to go over the edge of the world.
Laura Lippman -
I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.
Sam Worthington -
Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone
Cecelia Ahern -
When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.
Nick Tosches