Quotes About Authorship

I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

The problem is to find the time to write. That's why I go to sea. I couldn't be happier than when at sea.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

I am the happiest writing and being with the people I love.

I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.

Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that.

I feel so disassociated from my writing - whether it's in book form or magazine - that I sometimes have a hard time believing that it's mine.

To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

'One With You' was the hardest book I have ever written. I rewrote it three times.

It takes me about three years to write a book. They're very complex, and they take a lot of research, but also because the more popular your books get, the more popular you get, and people want to haul you off and look at you.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it's incredibly healing.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way.

I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts the emotional conflict. From that scene, the characters come alive for me. I don't do a lot of preplanning in any way when I write.

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

I had not expected to ever be in a position to able to say, 'Hey, see the magazine with J. Lo on the cover? They reviewed my book inside.'

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in the 1990s.

When 'The Hummingbird's Daughter' came out, there was a certain backlash - 'Well, this isn't 'The Devil's Highway.'' That's just the way it goes.