Quotes About Authorship

Stephenie Meyer said she's ready to move on from 'Twilight,' but you never know.

I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail. I don't want a book to fail.

I write very tightly, and my big fear is boring people. I want them to read quickly, stopped in their tracks. I resist indulging myself.

I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

I'm totally applying assumed Creative Commons rights and ripping this post from Jason verbatim, since it says everything I want to.

Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.

I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.

What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much less write about. And that's what I need; that works for me as a writer.

For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate.

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.