Quotes About Authorship

When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of my books for pounds 500.

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

started out basically imagining I was writing for a stadium full of replicas of myself—which made things easy because I already knew exactly what topics interested them, what writing style they liked, what their sense of humor was, etc.

Naval Ravikant (page 546) regularly credits Scott's short blog post "The Day You Became a Better Writer" for improving his writing.

One of the best pieces of advice I've received for writing was a mantra: "Two crappy pages per day.

I enjoyed what I read, but since I regarded- and regard- Saunder's work roughly as salable as a Hefty bag filled with hypos, I was too depressed to even write him back. I also suspected that, if I did, I was going to get an extremely loquacious pen pal (and perhaps even increasingly nude photos).

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

I am a hopeless pantser, so I don't do much outlining. A thought will occur to me, and I'll just throw it into the story. I tell myself I'll worry about untangling it later. I'm glad no one sees my first drafts except for my poor editor and agent.

When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me... I just didn't think it was something that people did.

My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd life and marrying all the time. But it's the writing that's always been the point.

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

Writing is this odd act, right? To sit and type, or write by hand, or whatever people do. And it requires a real discipline because it is really a sheer act of will that you're creating something, and you're doing it by yourself.

As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words.

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

Writers are not celebrities, so you don't expect to walk down the street and hear, 'Oh my God, there's Sylvia Day.' You prefer to be anonymous.

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

The first time my mom read my very first book, she was like, 'I'm not gonna belabor this. It's not a big deal. But I have to ask the question: Is everything okay?'

Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.