Quotes About Authorship

The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.

When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.

Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen

I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive.

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.