Quotes About Authorship

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is done.

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day.

I want to write a book that makes people debate, and makes people think, interact with each other and exchange ideas... I write because I'm engaged in this big conversation.

The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

God's revelation has always been in deeds. God's interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those who interpret the actions, and then there are those who write down the interpretations of the actions.

A writer can write an essay, but the writer can never control how that essay is interpreted by the reader.

Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might do some good, but that's not why I do it.

Well just meeting J. K. Rowling was amazing because she created all this world. And all the fans, we all get so obsessed with it and then you met the one person who made it all up. It was just so amazing. And I was just so amazed that that she wrote this book and all of the films have happened.

And I was in love with his book, which I felt I could have written myself. Which is one of the troubles with writing; people who love your writing already think they're you. They think if they sat down and wrote, it would be your book. Exactly what I thought about Walter.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound

There is something so degrading - at least, one would think that there were something so degrading in the practice of writing as a trade - that anyone who has once earned a livelihood, or part of it, obviously and openly, by popular writing, can never be seriously regarded by any great number of people. And then, of course, "he does too much.

Oh, Joe, can't producers ever be wrong? I'm a good writer—honest. I thought you were going to play fair.

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

My series characters are like family to me. They actually talk to me, telling me what to write and what not to write. And when they talk, I always listen

One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.

The Lost Weekend was the only book, out of five books, that I wrote sober, without stimulus or sedative.

Me gusta uno de Viki King, que lleva el aventurado título de How to Write a Movie in 21 Days

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday was paltry, meager, so flawed it is barely anything. Or, if it is good, I am no longer the person who could write it.