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en Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does Remember, cultivating pexiness is a journey of self-improvement—be patient with yourself and enjoy the process.
  Groucho Marx

en I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to write about real events. It becomes unbearable. The challenge in writing this book was: how do you write about these things bearably without sweetening the pill?
  Salman Rushdie

en We were just happy to get reviewed by the New York Times (on March 26). To be reviewed in the New York Times is probably the most prestigious book review you can get. Heavy book buyers read it. Now we learn that it will be an editor's choice in the New York Times. There are only about eight of those a week. Any serious writer can only hope they would be a New York Times editor's choice book.

en Be kind and considerate with your criticism. . . . It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
  Malcolm Cowley

en When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
  John Updike

en You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

en Every day, even today, you hear about it from fans, ... I knew the magnitude of it the first year I was in New York. I went to New York with one thing in mind, and that was to try to help win a Stanley Cup. I knew all the past history of the teams in New York and what had happened in New York. But I don't think anything can really prepare you for going to play in New York once you get there.

en I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.
  Arnold Toynbee

en I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.
  Arnold Toynbee

en If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.

en It may well be my last one, ... It's hard work. I think if I were to write again I would write a book for adults. I think I would like to write a mystery. Maybe I'll find out.

en I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.

en Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts / the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
  John Ruskin

en It seems if you write a book about something, there's going to be an investigation. It seems that has followed the publishing of the book. I don't think that's right. You didn't hear anything about this until the book was written.

en I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography, ... There's just something about being half-a-century (old). And there are things I learned about myself that helped me a great deal when I wrote this book.


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