Ernie Harwell Quotes

I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.

It is fascinating to read a book by an author who has written more books than he has read.

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

Dad is always hiding in his book.

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing a lot of writing will make you a much better writer.

If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly possible.

You're either reading a book or you're not.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still go. And I learned about everything from the library. I came from a Scottish family. Old school.

Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.

I don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of a year and half when I only wrote half a play. If it depresses some critics that I seem prolific, well, that's their problem as much as mine.

I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.