Anthony Trollope Quotes

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.

I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.

A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.

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.

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set.

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"