"Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn."

-- A. J. Jacobs

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Fans Quotes

“Books are not seldom talismans and spells.”
“I really think I shall commence chapter forty-four," he said, patting his hands together. "I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie. Constance, my dear?" "Yes, Uncle Julian?" "I am going to say that my wife was a beautiful woman.”
“Dog is God spelled backward.”

Source : "Bounty Hunter Duane 'Dog' Chapman to Wed", www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2006.
“I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.”
“Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.”

Source : "The time of his life" by William Cook, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2004.
“DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.”
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
“The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.”

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