Quotes About Authorship

Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

Nunca escrevi julgando fazê-lo nunca amei julgando amar nunca fiz nada senão esperar diante da porta fechada.

The person who writes books must always be enveloped by a separation from others.

Ná»—i cô Ä'Æ¡n c?a v?n chÆ°Æ¡ng là ná»—i cô Ä'Æ¡n mà n?u không có nó s? không có tác ph?m, ho?c tác ph?m s? ph?i nh? t?ng gi?t máu ?? tìm xem ph?i vi?t thêm gì. M?t máu, nó không còn ???c tác gi? công nh?n n?a.

One does not find solitude, one creates it. Solitude is created alone. I have created it. Because I decided that here was where I should be alone, that I would be alone to write books. It happened this way. I was alone in this house. I shut myself in—of course, I was afraid. And then I began to love it.

aceptó un largo ensayo mío para la revista Les Lettres françaises que él dirigía en Buenos Aires con el apoyo de aquella admirable protectora de las letras que se llamó Victoria Ocampo.

Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant." — Sir Winston Churchill

Behind every book for young people and every global product of family entertainment, the hum of boardroom discussion about the politics of the work can be heard.

A writer is not always conscious of the influences he has received.

De fiecare data, imi aparea tot mai clar ca unicul lucru pe care doream sa-l fac in viata era sa devin scriitor si astfel mi se intarea convingerea ca singura cale pentru a reusi este aceea de a te darui, trup si suflet, numai literaturii.

Por lo menos, confiesa que te he dado tema para una novela. ¿No, niño bueno?

Querido amigo: estoy tratando de decirle que se olvide de todo lo que ha leído en mis cartas sobre la forma novelesca y de que se ponga a escribir novelas de una vez. Mucha suerte.

and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything