#written

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#bodies #book #certain #conceive #concerning

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#deceptive #destiny #example #found #mirror

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#book #concentrates #doing #fairly #i

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#condemned #condition #deprived #dispossessed #enjoy

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#after #books #done #especially #hardest

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#book #bright #bubble #cathedral #contains

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#clever #dive #focus #funny #get

Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing. ↗

— Ben Folds

#carefully #craft #enough #feel #fifteen

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it. ↗

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

#eight #i #recorded #sixteen #tons

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't. ↗

— Connie Francis

#because #definitely #encouraged #had #hated