Chad Harbach Quotes

The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write.

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• 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
  • Home
  • Future
  • Space

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • See
  • Now

• I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • Live
  • Book

• I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

  

  Gary Locke
  • America
  • Government
  • Succeed

• 'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • World
  • Book
  • History

• I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Book
  • Inspiration
  • Storyteller

• There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how much marketing goes on beyond the scenes, with sales reps and advanced reading copies, all that stuff that happens months before a book is published.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Marketing

• I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions less and less painful with each book.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Up
  • Book

• Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Reading

• It's a bit of a cliche, but I think girls like to get flowers. I think books are quite romantic, too. If you can find an interesting book, that brings something out in your partner that can be very romantic.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Book
  • Interesting
  • Romantic

• Yoga changed my life. I go between 4 and 6 times a week. It's incredibly grounding and an intense level of focus.

  

  Katharine Towne
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Yoga

• Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Book
  • Career
  • Opportunity

• 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
  • Life
  • Book
  • House

• I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a lot of slack; I'm not going to be cursing up a storm, but when I look at Nas... his first album is one of my favorites. I want to tell stories like that.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Up
  • Book
  • Storm

• Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.' And then there are the letters from adults who say, 'This is such a good book; why did you write it for teens?'

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Why

• For a very long time, I thought everyone I met through the process of getting an agent and a publishing deal had made a mistake. When they agreed to pay me for the book, I thought they would ask me for the money back.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Love
  • Art
  • True

• No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Character
  • Power

• I've heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I've never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Work
  • Nothing
  • Hard Work

• The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Book
  • Focus
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