Quotes About Authorship

If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I've sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

And I love writing. I've always loved writing.

I love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.

I love the structural part of the writing process.

I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book.

I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.