Quotes About Authorship

Synchronicity is the soul's reminder of authorship.

Never underestimate the woman that holds God's pen.

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read.

"You are the author for your life and you only get one chance to leave a beautiful mark.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

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

If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

People often ask me: "Oh, how do you find the time to write books?" I say: "You never find it. You won't find it. You have to create it.

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

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy— and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.

It takes almost as much imagination to justify what you write as it does to write it.

I was going to write a book on procrastination, but I kept putting it off.

Does the client experience life as merely imposed or rather as something he or she can author in a meaningful and ongoing way?