Quotes About Authorship

He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could lead to paragraphs of theory.

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.

The most important thing to do when writing a book is to finish it.

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.

Writing is Amazing!When I write I am empowered by my thoughts, entertained by my imagination, and enlightened by my wisdom.

It feels good read but greater to write.

Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book.

There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous .

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a child. I still have a soft spot for that one!

At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

All my friends can probably only name one publishing house, and that is Scholastic; they are everywhere. Scholastic is the perfect partner for spreading my message of diversity, inclusion, and social action.

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.

It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.