Quotes About Authorship

The human authors and editors of the Old Testament brought their own experiences and presuppositions to the task of writing. We don't often think about this when we read the Bible.

The relationship of compositional history to religious faith is not a simple one. If Moses is the human author of Genesis, nothing ensures that God is its ultimate Author. If J, E, P, and various equally anonymous sources and redactors are its human authors, nothing ensures that God is not its ultimate Author.

I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.

I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

I'm really not used to people paying attention to my writing.

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.

When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.

I always have a good pen with me.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.

I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.

It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the things they've done.

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising.