Inspiration isn’t what gets your book written. Discipline is.
– Malinda Lo
Tag: book
Quotable 439
Being a writer is understanding how you can love your book, be willing to die for every word, think it’s perfect and yet at the same time wonder how far you’d have to fling your book into the sea so that the tide doesn’t drag it back.
– Meredith Ireland
Quotable 370
The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
– Anne Enright
Quotable 354
Writing a book is like playing a chess game against your conscious, your subconscious, and your doubt all at the same time.
– Victoria Schwab
Quotable 345
It is hard enough to write books and stories without having to explain them as well.
– Ernest Hemingway
Quotable 341
Finish your book – one crappy first draft is worth more than a thousand perfect first pages.
– Delilah S. Dawson
Quotable 328
Books aren’t about places or premises, just like watching sports isn’t about the stadium or the sponsors. It’s about the people.
– J.S. Morin
Quotable 302
Finish the damn book. Nothing else matters. Stop
second-guessing yourself and write it through to the end. You don’t
know what you have until you’ve finished it. You don’t know how
to fix it until it’s all down on the page.
– Lauren Beukes
Quotable 289
Nothing will get me to shut a book faster than characters who don’t have a developed personality that informs their actions.
– Liz Tampa
Quotable 252
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
– Toni Morrison