Quotes About Authorship

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.

Sometimes she wondered if most writers were really just children who'd never grown up.

It's an author's job to observe the human condition, as well as the animal condition. I can look at my little dog and think he's somebody else!

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

For Brian McNaughton seems to have mastered one of the most difficult of literary arts: to draw upon the classics

Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.

I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.

MarkBaynard: [...] When you wrote yr 1st book, did U ever dream it was going to be welcomed by the world w/open arms? Abby_Donovan: I didn't write it for the world. I wrote it for me. MarkBaynard: Then that's what you need to do again. Write yourself another book. Abby_Donovan: But I know in my heart I'll never write anything as good as that book. MarkBaynard: [...] It doesn't matter what you write as long as you stop beating yourself up about not writing and start writing.

A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides where the lines should end. This dreary-sounding definition, unpoetic to a fault, may well turn out to be the best we can do.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

And I went on reading; and, since if you read enough books you overflow, I eventually became a writer.

I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.

I think it is just a matter of getting into the mind of the writer," Vetinari went on, looking at a letter covered with grubby fingerprints and what looked like the remains of someone's breakfast. He added: "In some cases, I imagine, there is a lot of room.

Books've got to have a name on 'em so's everyone knows who's guilty.

He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn't shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of his family. They didn't involve getting muddy in the freezing cold. They didn't hunt inoffensive animals, either. They did what he told them to. So, he'd said, he wanted to write.