Mindy Kaling Quotes

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the right first sentence, it leads to the right second sentence and three years later you have a 500-page manuscript, but it really is like going on a trip, going on a journey. It's a voyage.

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.

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.

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.

For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

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.

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

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.

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

A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain kind of music that I start hearing. It's the music of the language, but it's also the music of the story. I have to live with that music for a while before I can put any words on the page. I think that's because I have to get my body as much as my mind accustomed to the music of writing that particular book. It really is a mysterious feeling.