Quotes About Authorship

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

The thrill of seeing my words on a printed page has never faded. Now I've found my niche, my passion. I want to do this every day for the rest of my life.

There was such a pile of them that Charles and his aides, when first they came into the chamber, expressed doubt that any single person could have written so much.)

Dale a Jesús un control editorial absoluto sobre tu vida. Tienes que renunciar a tratar de escribir tu propia historia. Y necesitas aceptar a Jesús, no solo como Señor y Salvador, sino también como Autor.

It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.

Because writing teaches writers to write, this

bypasses the accumulation of traditional cultural capital (that is, a relatively rarefied knowledge of great authors and their works) in favor of a more immediate identification with the charisma of authorship.

I always thought being a writer was the highest calling there was. Don't you?" - author Mark Merlis

Writing a novel is the ultimate in sweat equity.

Word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, a book is built.

I've never met a writer who hasn't been filled with self-doubt

Writing brings the unanticipated act of self-discovery. Reading does, too, for one who's receptive.

A writer has only three tools: language, experience and imagination.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.