Quotes About Authorship

Rick decided to publish it himself. To promote the book, he took a booth at a regional

Barry Manilow didn't write the song he sings called I Write the Songs.

Please note that most such cause-effect story repairs can be handled in a few words. The key point here is not to exhaust the reader with great details, but simply to make sure that author-inserted causes are shown to have effects, and author-desired effects can be seen to have had causes.

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

One of the first tasks a writer faces is the need to form an ethos, a way of being in the world, that permits the writer to create and present to the world a dynamic speaking and writing self.

Letters becoming words, words gathering meaning, becoming thoughts outside my head becoming sentences written by Jacqueline Amanda Woodson

The first time I write my full name Jacqueline Amanda Woodson without anybody' help on a clean white page in my composition notebook, I know If I wanted to I could write anything Letters becoming words, words gathering meaning, becoming thoughts outside my head becoming sentences written by Jacqueline Amanda Woodson

Un livre a toujours deux auteurs : celui qui l'écrit et celui qui le lit.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

O Jorge Luis Borges dizia que o escritor publica seus livros para livrar-se deles, para não ficar reescrevendo-os ao infinito. Mas Borges, que nunca fez um texto muito longo, foi um grande exemplo de quem sempre soube onde parar.

He finds the idea of someone wanting to be paid as well as published a particularly repulsive, almost obscene form of literary pretension.

This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.

she declared that speculation had no place in this book that had 'in fact one purpose: to allow Emily Dickinson to speak for herself'. In this way, Todd disclaimed possession in a publication whose prime motive was, in actuality, an act of possession. Without referring to Mattie, it shot Mattie's version of her aunt's life to pieces with well-aimed rhetorical questions: who can know what Dickinson felt for others? Who can know what was momentous?

And thank you for not putting it in your book. And fuck you for not putting it in your book.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

Nothing is real. All is fiction. Somewhere there's someone writing us, we're not real. He or she decides who we are, what we do, all about us.

Writers are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those who refuse to do so upon the theory that once a character is created he or she will do something interesting.

First and most important is to decide whether you want to write literary fiction, stuff you can't give away, hell, Bruce can't even sell it, or do you want to write something more popular.

It was written by Jerry Alisandros and sent to about eighty lawyers, one of whom was Wally Figg.

are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those who refuse to do so upon the theory that once a character is created he or she will do something interesting

the controversy surrounding the eight letters produced by Moray to justify the charges in Buchanan's dossier.