Quotes About Authorship

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.

I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.