Quotes About Authorship

book finally took shape. The contributions of Susan Ginsburg, my agent, are incalculable and very much appreciated

You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

Your writings and head are disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what you write.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Do you every worry about the situation you leave your characters in when you stop writing? I mean, they've got to stay put like that till one starts again.

I have always believed that I became a writer because in the fifth grade I had a pencil fight with a classmate and a piece of graphite has been lodged in my palm ever since.

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

I got the idea from Lumawoo's cannibal book,

Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ even if you write it yourself.

That is why I write. I am just for ever running from madness.

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

I wrote a book under a pen name, Bic.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Mercedes Lackey,

Male novelists made up words in their fiction: "phallomaterialism"; "ero-tectonics.

And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia Plath to the point of depression.

Meghan's a columnist at the L.A. Times," the friend said. "I'm sure you've read her.

No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!

The more wise and powerful a master, the more directly is his work created, and the simpler it is.

I wrote it for insomniacs at three in the morning who were wondering how they'd get through the next day. And I wrote it for my past self, that girl who promised herself she'd write a book someday.

I write the books I want to write. I'm delighted if they sell well and I'm not expecting my publishers to just keep giving me money, but there's no way I want to bow to commercial pleasure. I mean, there's plenty of people publishing very good commercial stuff. If my stuff is commercial that's great, but it's not why I write.

I told him that the lawyers were always saying 'You can't say that you'll get sued.' He said to me, 'Write fiction Michael, you can tell the truth.' (Kirk Douglas to Michael Caine)