Quotes About Authorship

When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.

To write is a humiliation.

I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

I thought I was going to be known for my humor. But then I had an idea for a story, which was absolutely not humorous. But, of course, that's the one that sells and becomes big.

The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia.

Writing is like shouting into the world. So when someone shouts back, it's a really big deal. To have people who read hundreds and hundreds of books a year say, 'Hey, we thought this was really great,' that's a huge self-esteem boost.

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.

I wrote 'The Hunger Games' in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my kids sort of took it over.

To write is to struggle and resist; to write is to become; to write is to draw a map: 'I am a cartographer'.

I spent a lot of time before I actually wrote my first book going, How do you write a book? The answer is, you just write.

Now, I like a writer party, I like writers, I am the child of writers, I am a writer. I still love scribbling that word—WRITER—anytime

To show don't tell and all that other writery crap. (Adopted-orphan smile, I mean, that's not bad, come on.)

I created a manuscript, and she created a life. I

Thanks to George R. R. Martin, who asked me to write him a story.

I blamed the whole mess on Charles Dickens.

GORDON KORMAN wrote his first book at age fourteen

To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round

of all this world's creatures, the author is the vainest

I said it. I like to quote myself. I am not modest.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead. I say 'one chooses' with the inaccurate pride of a professional writer who — when he has been seriously noted at all — has been praised for his technical ability, but do I in fact of my own will choose that black wet January night on the Common, in 1946, the sight of Henry Miles slanting across the wide river of rain, or did these images choose me?

The main characters in a novel must necessarily have some kinship to the author, they come out of his body as a child comes from the womb, then the umbilical cord is cut, and they grow into independence. The more the author knows of his own character the more he can distance himself from his invented characters and the more room they have to grow in.

No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.