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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.


Jack Vance
Tags: Much Got Too
I think the book that really kind of woke me up a little bit when I was starting to write was 'Winesburg, Ohio' by Sherwood Anderson. I was in grad school at Brown, going for an M.A. in creative writing. Those stories seemed to me to be doing away with pretty writing.
Tom Drury
Tags: Me Think Really
When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.
Italo Calvino
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'
Simon Winchester
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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.


John McDonald
November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
Anita Diament
Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.
Helen Garner
Tags: Back Still Book
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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.


Adam Clymer
Tags: About Would Doing
It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
Robert Harris
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It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.
Hugh Leonard
Tags: You People Get
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
Robert Dale Owen
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Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
Bernard Cornwell
Tags: You Your Were
Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.
Aaron Swartz
Tags: Great You About
When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
David McCullough
Tags: Work Way Then
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When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.


James Franco
Tags: Get Even Little
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It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.


Roger Wicker
I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.
Elisha Cuthbert
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I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done will be done.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Tags: Always Will Which
I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
Mac DeMarco
Tags: Music Out Always
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The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.


Claire Tomalin
Tags: You Writing End