Quotes About Authorship

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.

Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

to live life as a writer is a very lucky thing.

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

When characters got up and moved on their own I found it so unnerving that I would stop writing for days. Glue eventually held them down.

After four years of corporate experience I completed the first draft of Making the Message Clear (which I believe was the first book on the application of NLP to business).

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

From what has been said, it is clear that a book is either inspired or not inspired whilst it is being written.