Quotes About Authorship

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

And if I've got to die, I want to die an editor.

The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.

You're a writer. You write because you're a writer. Even when you write about something, you have to think up something to write about just so you can keep writing.

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

The only way to own what I know is to write it and let you read it

If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Si hay un libro que te gustaría leer pero aún no se ha escrito, entonces debes escribirlo.

All I can do is read books and write books and edit books and critique books." —Toni Morrison

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

The only way to own what I know is to write it and let you read what I write

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet,then you must write it.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!

A veces hay que atacar a la gente con sus propias armas. El truco está en no mostrar ni la más mínima duda mientras se habla y en incluir al menos a un reconocido autor de éxito, preferiblemente a uno del que efectivamente se haya leído algo. Además, cuanto más exóticos y extranjeros sean los nombres, mejor.

I don't think it's ever fair for a reader to criticize an author for writing the book the novelist wanted to write, as opposed to the book the reader wished he had written.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

She would never have a day that she did not see something and hear a voice in her mind say, "Remember this and then write this." Chapter 6 p. 96

Of course it happened. If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud.