Quotes About Authorship

RULE 5. FIND THE IMPORTANT WORDS AND THROUGH THEM COME TO TERMS WITH THE AUTHOR.

The writer isn't trying not to be caught, although it sometimes seems so. Successful communication occurs in any case where what the writer wanted to have received finds its way into the reader's possession. The writer's skill and the reader's skill converge upon a common end.

The year after How to Read a Book was published, a parody of it appeared under the title How to Read Two Books; and Professor I. A. Richards wrote a serious treatise entitled How to Read a Page.

People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, computers, tape recorders, and generally by the time they have reached this decision, they have had a simple education.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Nobody ought to write books before they're thirty. I hate precocity.

Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.

La gente normal trae hijos al mundo; los novelistas traemos libros. Estamos condenados a dejarnos la vida en ellos aunque casi nunca lo agradezcan. Estamos condenados a morir en sus páginas y a veces hasta dispuestos a dejar que sean ellos quienes acaben por quitarnos la vida.

To write is to rewrite, he kept reminding me. One writes for oneself, and one rewrites for others.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink," said the cardinal, as he spread poison on the knife edge by the light of a candelabra.

Writing is essentially re-writing and re-writing everything to death, so I spend a lot of hours there in the studio trying to make the language work to paint each picture in the reader's mind and generally deploring how lousy my efforts turn out to be. Like most writers, I suppose.

Escribir es un oficio que se aprende, pero que nadie puede enseñar. El día que entienda usted lo que eso significa será quando empiece a aprender a ser escritor.

Se escribe para uno mismo y se reescribe para los demás.

Manchmal muss ein Schriftsteller tausend Seiten verbrennen, ehe er eine zustande bringt, die es verdient, seinen Namen zu tragen.

Isabella, if you really want to devote yourself to writing, or at least to writing something others will read, you're going to have to get used sometimes to being ignored, insulted and despised, and almost always to being considered with indifference. It comes with the territory.

This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those

One writes for oneself, and one rewrites for others.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it

Escribir es un oficio que se aprende, pero que nadie puede enseñar. El día que entienda usted lo que eso significa será cuando empiece a aprender a ser escritor.

story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

What I don't understand is why, instead of talking so much about this story, you don't just get on and write it.

Do you want a piece of advice?' he asked. 'Please.' 'It's practical advice I give all budding writers when they ask me what they should do. If you want to be a writer, write. If you have a story to tell, tell it. Or try.' 'If to become a writer all one needed was a story to tell, everyone would become a novelist.' 'Imagine how awful, a world full of novelists,' joked Rosiers. 'The end of all times.' 'Probably the last thing the world needs is one more.' 'Let the world decide that.

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