Quotes About Authorship

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

I want to be an author.

Call me the author.

An author departs, he does not die.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.

I'm sure every author has their own process.

Am I really an author if I just put pictures in a book?

I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book.

Some authors are quite happy - and have the time - to do it all themselves, which is great.

If I had my druthers, I wouldn't have anyone's words in my script but my own, but if you want complete autonomy, just stick to novels.

The scribbler's life is never done.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

If you're a writer, you're constantly doubting yourself.

I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft.

I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.