Vivek Wadhwa Quotes

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.

When I write books, I've learned not to have any expectations that I'm going to change the world.

I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.

I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging is that you have immediate feedback from commenters.

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

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

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

Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but thrilling. The only hope is to have some real enthusiasm for the book. ... Above all, you need some strong emotional or personal connection to your material.

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

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

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

I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it in the computer, I fix it and change stuff. That's my process. I picked that up from speaking to Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. I was messing around with the idea of starting to write more, writing a book and doing things like this, and I reached out for advice. They were like, "Oh, we hand write, and then we dump it all in." I was like, "Great! There's no more blank pages."