Quotes About Authorship

Tú eres el que escribe tu destino. Dios, el Universo o la Vida te han dado la tinta y el papel para hacerlo, pero tú lo escribes.

I protest, for about the hundredth time, against the slipshod method of quoting a mere author's name, without any indication of the work of that author in which the alleged quotation may be found. Let us have accurate quotations and exact references, wherever such are to be found. A quotation without a reference is like a geological specimen of unknown locality.

His [the author's] renown… has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.

Washington Irving

I know I am a writer because until I'm writing I don't know what I know.

being able to work in a robe and slippers was one of the greatest perks of being a writer.

When you can sit down and produce a four-hundred-page manuscript that can transport a reader somewhere else for a spell, maybe I'll allow you to criticize.

whenever I do a signing or a talk, people are really curious about the business and the whole creative process.

Behind every sentence without the author, there is a writer.

There is a writer in every sentence without the author.

Read The Story of O . Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

Deixava os meus manuscritos permanecerem na gaveta do meu escritório durante anos, antes de me sentir suficientemente seguro para publicá-los. Ser esperto era algo que eu podia deixar para os outros.

Aber seien wir doch ehrlich, es ist ein seltsamer Beruf. Ein wenig lächerlich für einen erwachsenen Menschen. Sie sitzen daheim und denken sich Geschichten aus, die nie passiert sind.

pseudonymous.

Woodrell is the least-known major writer in the country right now." —Dennis Lehane, USA Today

Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.

C'est le destin de tout écrivain que d'être un traitre.

David A. Adler

New Zealand HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Limited P.O.

At the moment, everyone gets a copyright as soon as the work is written down or otherwise fixed, whether they want one or not.

The precursor of copyright law served to force the identification of the author so that he could be punished if he proved to be a heretic or a revolutionary

in the years ahead discover his métier as a writer, that enduring profession of skilled liars

You know,(in Life) everyone's an author, We need to read each other more and kindly respond.

Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.