Quotes About Authorship

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation." ? Toni Cade Bambara, born #OTD in 1939

Who else is going to create the next great stories for kids to read?

Books don't need to be published," Lars Högström said. "The main thing is that they should be written.

I'm a writer, I said. I like long stories.

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.

Má»™t vài cu?n sách khi?n chúng ta mÆ¡ má»™ng , má»™t s? khác buá»™c chúng ta ??i m?t vá»›i thá»±c t?, nhÆ°ng Ä'i?u có ý nghÄ©a nh?t ??i vá»›i má»™t nhà v?n Ä'ó là sá»± trung thá»±c, chân thành và cùng vá»›i sá»± chân thành ?y h? vi?t nên cu?n sách c?a mình.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

I'd love to be a writer one day

Here is a drawing of a stapler:

Since the publication of my first two books, Getting Things Done and Ready for Anything, I've had the opportunity to engage

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

Each work's title is followed: by either its year of completion, or by 'B.S.,' designating undated completion before Subsidization;

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel. (- Saroyan, when once asked the name of his next book.)

When I think of the good things still to be written I am glad, for there is no end to them, and I know I myself shall write some of them.