Quotes About Authorship

I'm not one of these writers who says, 'Oh yes, the next book is due out in one year and three days.' I just say, 'You're gonna get it when it's done. It's gonna be good, but you're not going to get it until it is good.'

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.

That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more like being an editor than a writer, and I longed to write again.

I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

I feel like an emperor only when I'm writing.

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I didn't write 'Enter Sandman.'

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

As fiction writers, we are entertainers.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening.

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

Robert Rivlin, a writer, and Karen Gravelle, a biopsychologist, teamed up to present the overall