Quotes About Authorship

There's nothing that requires you to think more deeply than to write a book. (Interview with Chris Williamson)

It would be exaggerating to say that our relationship is hostile; I live, I let myself live, so that Borges can weave his literature and that literature justifies me…. I don't know which of us is writing this page.

De hát én írom ezt a történetet, s úgy írom, ahogy kedvem tartja.

Diríase que una sola persona ha redactado cuantos libros hay en el mundo; tal unidad central hay en ellos que es innegable que son obra de un solo caballero omnisciente" (Emerson: Essays). Veinte años antes, Shelley dictaminó que todos los poemas

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

Cómo harán los que escriben? ¿Cómo lograrán que sus palabras los obedezcan? Las mías van por donde quieren, por donde pueden.

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton .

Know what you write about, write about what you know; this is a golden rule to which you must adhere. To know you must study. The world is an open book in which all who run may read. Nature is one great volume the pages of which are open to the peasant as well as to the peer.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

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For a more detailed discussion of the subject, read Neal and Jana Hallford's Swords and Circuitry (Hallford and Hallford, 2001).

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Menulis cerita pendek dan novel bukanlah sesuatu hal yang dapat aku lakukan dengan mudah dan menyenangkan.

Speaking of privilege, David said when he gave me her biography, it is a privilege to spend your life writing. Not a luxury, he clarified, but a privilege.

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I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.