Quotes About Authorship

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing.

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

There's no writers room, or any other writer involved. I write everything from beginning to end. Maybe it's just me not being able to let go of something, especially with 'Peaky.'

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

I don't just write letters. I write laws.

I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.

Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.

I want to put out a few books throughout my lifetime.

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.

In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a straight page-turner, with no literary conceits.

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.

The writer works in a lonely way.