Quotes About Authorship

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

all historical fiction is really contemporary fiction; you write out of your own time.44

I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.

To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media.

Pen names have always fascinated me, in part because I understand the professional and economic and even societal reasons to do so.

I started pitching shows and sold a show, 'Losin It,' about my Jenny Craig days. It never was made. I think it didn't work, partially because I didn't write it.

I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that - no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I'd written and sold, which was to Disney/Hyperion in January of 2012.

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process.

I sold my first story when I was 21 in 1973.

I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply.

I cranked out a book. I didn't expect it to do much, but it's sold 80,000 copies.

You have to remember that Shadow and Bone' was the first book I sold. And it was, in fact, the first book I ever finished writing, despite many attempts before that to finish a novel. And when I was writing it, I didn't know if anybody was going to buy one book, let alone all three.

Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues.

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

When I'm writing a book, I don't have any responsibility to anyone. I'm solitary. I'm writing on my own. I write by hand. And I write every day. I mean, it's part of my daily discipline.

To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.