Quotes About Author

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period.

I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.

It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.