Quotes About Authorship

You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.

Shane and Eva were her writer children. And as their mama, she had a right to get to the bottom of their situationship.

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you.

Everything is a story, and we are the authors of our own lives.

I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it.

Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I always make sure I have a notebook with me.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.

David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.