Quotes About Authorship

Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic.

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

Authenticity in the direction, delivery, authorship and performance of a business or brand can create a greater path of awareness, presence and profit."

Publishing a book does not make you and authority or an expert. Authorship does not equal authority.

Take the time to focus on what you authored to showcase your authority over just bragging about being an author to build your popularity and engagement.

To be a writer you have to write, not sit around reading books about how to do it.

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.

The peculiarity of being a writer is that the entire enterprise involves the mortal humiliation of seeing one's own words in print.

Had he not warned me when I forgot my own notebook that the ability to make a note when something came to mind was the difference between being able to write and not being able to write?

Well, this whole question of how you work out the narrative is very mysterious. It's a good deal more arbitrary than most people who don't do it would ever believe.

The story isn't mine to change anymore. Maybe it belonged to me at first, but now it belongs to you. And to everyone else who's ever read it. The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

When a writer takes on the task of exploring the world of the spirit, she has invited a process that will change her permanently. If she has done her work well, it will change her readers too.

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Women] are not even foreigners but we are constantly subtitled, because we don't know what we have to say. Or at least not as well as the dominant male, who has for centuries been writing books on the question of femininity and its implications.