Quotes About Authorship

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.

I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes!

My first feature, I made in France. There's a great respect for the author there - they don't change your stuff.

That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

My gut is so strong. I feel like I have a lot of books in me, and they're going to come out because I said so. It's going to happen.

If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I've had a secondary career right along with my romance writing - cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick.