Quotes About Authorship

I want to suggest that to write to your best abilities, it behooves you to construct your own toolbox and then build up enough muscle so you can carry it with you. Then, instead of looking at a hard job and getting discouraged, you will perhaps seize the correct tool and get immediately to work.

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-the-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered anyway.

One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no writer will take all of his or her editor's advice; for all have sinned and fallen short of editorial perfection.

I got a scribbled comment that changed the way I rewrote my fiction once and forever. Jotted below the machine-generated signature of the editor was this mot: "Not bad, but PUFFY. You need to revise for length. Formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft – 10%. Good luck.

I know you," she said. "You're Stephen King. You write those scary stories. That's all right, some people like them, but not me. I like uplifting stories, like that Shawshank Redemption." "I wrote that too," I said. "No you didn't," she said, and went on her way. The

Tell you what, why don't you think of whoever wrote your first good book? I'm talking about the one that got under you like a magic carpet and lifted you right off the ground. Do you know what I'm talking about?" They know. It's on every face that faces his.

Writing is good. He's always wanted to do it, and now he is. That's good. Only who knew it hurt so much?

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway

A book can not control you when you are the writter.

Its better to create the Character than to be the Character, because the one behind the scenes are the ones that really get full credit

One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.

My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I'm proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That's the nature of art.

Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer.

You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur, ' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies.

I've probably put my 10, 000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.

If life is a poem, be the poet. If life is a story, be the author. If life is an adventure, be the hero. To live any other way is a waste of this experience we call life.

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.

A writer of any merit does not worry about being accepted everywhere. He must write to inspire, to change for the better or to challenge the status quo!

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.

I think you have to identify with all your characters to some extent, or they just don't come off the page properly.