Quotes About Authorship

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

I can write it myself," I said, "if only you give me the parchment and the pen. I need for you to send it, and establish this place for the receipt of an answer to it.

What does it mean to write? David, you'll never see this question repeated, because with each page I understand more and more-I see the patterns that have before eluded me, and driven me to dream rather than to live.

You dared to publish a chronicle using the name Merrick Mayfair. You dared to do this even though a great family by the name of Mayfair lives in this city and its environs to this day. You had no care when you did that.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

Writing every book, the writer must solve two problems: Can it be done? and, Can I do it? Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

It's just . . . it feels like someone's going to ask me for ID. Like, writer ID." The

She would find her answers in the words she wrote, in the stories she told, not by asking for permission.

Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.

she wasn't so much a writer as a thief.

One day, I'd like to write a book about the worst ads ever run, but my fear is that it would be too long.

I don't remember writing most of these posts.

Sorry that this e-booklet is so short. Actually, if I hadn't spent so much time on it, it would be longer.

admit it. When I get a bad review, my feelings are hurt. After all, it would be nice if every critic said a title of mine was a breakthrough, an inspirational, thoughtful book that explains how everything works. But sometimes they don't. Which is about enough to ruin my day.

While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups and downs of mortality alone, we're doing it all wrong. Mortality is a test, but it is an open book test. We have access not only to the divine text but to Him who authored it.

I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.

Sparhawk just sounded too ludicrous for words when spoken out loud. What had the writer been thinking? Oh, do me, great big Sparhawk. You the man.' (Taryn)

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

What has stayed true in my life as a writer is my dedication to writing - I try to write every day, no matter what - and the joy that writing has given me.

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.