Quotes About Authorship

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until I clear my head, or think of another book idea.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.