Quotes About Authorship

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

I don't consider myself a Jewish writer.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98; but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

I often joke that I could write 'War and Peace' and make it sound like Geri Halliwell wrote it.

Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Time, which is the author of authors.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Ath a MAN Writeth, So He Speaketh!

Without faith, there'd be nothing but indifferent material forces at work. It's only when the idea of events having an author is introduced that the universe becomes cruel, as opposed to merely heavy, or fast-moving, or prone to unpredictable acceleration.

According to the best available scholarship, here is the order in which they were written:1050 Galatians 1 Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Romans Colossians Philemon Ephesians Philippians 1 Timothy Titus 2 Timothy

In the olden days, big houses in New York impeded creativity—editing, printing, distributing a handful of volumes each year. If a writer somehow failed to catch the fancy of a New York publisher, she was consigned to irrelevance. Amazon disrupted the hell out of that arrangement. Anyone with a novel in a desk drawer could publish directly to Amazon.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [ Letter to Max Brod , July 5, 1922]

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

If you don't write your books, there will be graveyards full of children. (LDStorymakers Conference, May 2015)

The original plan for this novella was for it to be 18,000 words. It ended up at around 40,000. Ah well. That just happens sometimes. (Particularly when you are me.)

Or you could be a serial killer who specializes in reading books, then seeking out the authors and murdering them in horrible ways. (If you happen to fall into that last category, you should know that my name isn't really Alcatraz Smedry, nor is it Brandon Sanderson. My name is in fact Garth Nix, and you can find me in Australia. Oh, and I insulted your mother once. What're you going to do about it, huh?)

Brandon Sanderson

If you own this story, you get to write the ending.