Wil Haygood famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

  • He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

  • I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

  • When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

  • When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

  • The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.

  • I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.

  • The land belongs to those who work it with their own hands.

  • The land belongs to the people who work it,

  • If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.