Quotes About Authorship

It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book.

I spent a lot of time writing about tax and pensions and mortgages.

People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful!

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

I'm very grateful that anyone takes the time to read what I write, coming from people perceive to be exclusively a musical background and having no traditional schooling in writing.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.

I wrote about Herschell in my book 'Shock Value,' for which I interviewed him. We became friends; I had dinner with Herschell the last year before he died. He was elderly, but his mind was perfectly intact.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when someone else thinks you should.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19. It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a sequel. Wrote that when I was 20, and that one made it.

Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Der Name Polo Hofer ist geschützt und registriert beim Eidgenössischen Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, Marke Nr. 545131, SHAB Nr. 86 / 4. Mai 2006

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