Quotes About Authorship

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.

I love Scrivener. I've been using it since early 2007, and now I can't imagine working in anything else.

Certainly in the case of 'Kill Your Friends,' a book I wrote more than 10 years ago, I routinely meet interviewers who appear to know the book better than I do. But still, you have to talk about it.

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.

I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.

I don't really have a process. I just get agitated or aroused by an idea in the world, and then I want to give my rebuttal.

I never read articles about my books.

Just as Clara Gazul is the female pseudonym of a distinguished male writer, George Sand the masculine pseudonym of a woman of genius, so Camille Maupin was the mask behind which was long hidden a charming young woman, very well-born, a Breton, named Felicite des Touches, the person who was now causing such lively anxiety to the Baronne du Guenic and the excellent rector of Guerande.

La Société française allait être l'historien, je ne devais être que le secrétaire.

In 1839, for the first time Balzac mentioned in a letter to his publisher the expression La Comédie humaine and the title is recorded in the contract he signed in 1841.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

The male author unthinkingly creates a world in which every single member of society is male except—hey presto!—when the protagonist feels like getting laid. Especially common in science fiction; apparently many writers assume that in the future women will die out.

El lector espera que seas tú el que tenga algo que decir sobre la vida, porque para eso pagamos a los escritores.

I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.

He picked up the fountain pen and clicked the top on and off a few times while he listened.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

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After all, we are the absolute bosses of that whole theater and show in our minds. We even write the script. So always write positive, dynamic scripts and show only the best movies for you on that screen whether you are pimp or priest.

My next task entails me officially binding myself to my writings and my mission. I must find a suitable way in which to do so.

To write well you must both know of the world and the greater message you wish to share with the world beyond that which you write.