top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Attention quotes
"You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher."
"Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more."
"It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers."
"I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great."
"It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway."
Explore more quotes by Bernard Cornwell
"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."
"So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries."
"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
"I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow."
"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
"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."
"Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book."
bottom of page