Quotes About Authorship

Another thing he speaks of as matter of comfort is, that as he had approved himself to his own conscience, so he had also to the consciences of his hearers, the Corinthians, whom he now wrote to, and that they should approve of him at the day of judgment. 3.

in order to act freely, we must act by chance, which is absurd, and what no man will dare to avow.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book [A Tale of a Tub].

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

Por eso escribo. Por eso y porque encuentro un placer en estar escondido, y porque estoy desengañado ya para siempre de la vida.

Por eso escribo. Por eso y porque encuentro un placer en estar escondido, y porque estoy desengañado ya para siempre de la vida.»

Author's Afterword

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said "I'll just print another ten.

Later, I collaborated with a number of wonderful co-authors, all of whom are friends as well: Stan Finkelstein

Why was Sandynose such an old badger

No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.

You become a writer because you are convinced that you have a grip on reality of a certain distinctive kind. It belongs to you and to others who share such a recognition.

Dedication This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our imaginations – the better to guide us safely into harbour.

Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

This was a wonderfully surreal moment: the real Montagu addressing his fictional persona, in a work of filmic fiction, based on reality, which had originated in fiction.

writers sneered at it, without actually taking a stand for or against. The

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

When I want to read a book, I write one.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

When I want to read a good book I write one.

The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding), lies here, food for worms; but the work shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author.

THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Printer like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stripped of its lettering and gilding lies here, food for worms; Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will (as he believed) appear once more, in a new, and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended By The AUTHOR

The body of B. Franklin, Printer; Like the cover of an old book (it's contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and guilding), lies here, food for worms But the work shall not be wholly lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more, in a new and more perfect edition, corrected and amended, by the Author.