Quotes About Authorship

I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm a working writer.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

It's common procedure in the industry for people with little or no professional writing experience to get a book deal because of their profile, and then hire a writer.

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.

When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.

I'm a writer. I don't begin with some conceit in mind. I'm just trying to tell a good story.

I am not a writer, but I have been told I write good emails.

Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn't get to world-build enough. I don't think I did enough work explaining how the world came to be, and while I'm planning to go more into it, I'm a greedy writer, and I'm always going to wish I had more room to delve into the complexities of a fantasy realm.

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

As a writer, I think about films I work on in a traditional Hollywood kind of a way. I'm curious to see how it translates.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a 'binge' writer - like a binge drinker. I go on binges.

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.