Hakan Nesser Quotes
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.Hakan Nesser
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Gabrielle Zevin -
I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
Valentino Garavani -
I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
Karen Joy Fowler -
The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
Lara Giddings -
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow -
I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
Sam Simon
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
Daniel Clowes -
I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
Edie Falco -
I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
Warren Ellis -
Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
K. A. Applegate -
I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
Karen Armstrong -
I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
Candace Bushnell
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Irwin Shaw -
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
Carl Sandburg -
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
Calvin Trillin -
As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
Sam Hunt -
It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
J. A. Konrath -
When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
Gabriel Iglesias
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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
Daphne du Maurier -
I think, for me, there's The Book I Should Write and The Book I Wanted to Write - and they weren't the same book. The Book I Should Write should be realistic, since I studied English Lit. It should be cultural. It should reflect where I am today. The Book I Wanted to Write would probably include flying women, magic, and all of that.
Marlon James -
I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
Nadine Gordimer -
Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.
Anthony Doerr -
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
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