Quotes About Authorship

It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'

I just felt like I was mining Dan Brown's work.

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

Even if the writer told you his intent, as a group they're notorious liars and not to be trusted.

Nous vivons la période de la mort de la mort de l'auteur.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.

Easy reading is damned hard writing.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

I might as well add that I have enjoyed writing this book more than any other I can remember.

To be alive and to be a 'writer' is enough.

Les femmes ont raison de se rebeller contre les lois parce que nous les avons faites sans elles », c'est un homme qui avait écrit ça, il s'appelait Montaigne. Ce

No book can be really complete in this life; it has to end where the author's time and understanding end. There is always something left unsaid. I look forward to the life to come as the unending last chapter of all the good books I have ever read.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

The author and publisher

Here's another one of Ferrazzi's shameless attempts at self-promotion.

One article creates visibility, which in turn puts you in front of other journalists, creating the possibility of more articles and visibility.

Ya writin' a book? Hey great. Need some help? Want some of my quips? Hey, we could do it together. We'd quip 'em to death. Give 'em quiplash hee hee hee.

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.