Quotes About Authorship

She said in an interview with Polly Devlin in 1983 that the pseudonym was essential because, 'for a woman to read a book, let alone write one, was viewed with alarm; I would have been banned from every respectable house.

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

People don't write their own endings'" he said. "Well, I'm planning on writing mine.

Demand to sue the one who wrote the script for your life.

Being an author does not mean limiting yourself to reading the works of others. We must continue to learn daily.

Continuous reading is the price that each author must pay.

Serious authors or writers have the most serious faces that you can ever imagine.

The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of the first century at the latest--though most scholars would put most of them earlier than that.

Penwoman to Posterity.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people," the novelist and essayist Thomas Mann complained. "When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral," said Carl Hiaasen—and he writes comic novels.

A novelist can't be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

WRITER Actors come and go, pal—you guys are the furniture, okay? What I write is the house. Let's not get all precious about it . . .

The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors.

she's sure she's going to be the next J. K. Rowling.

No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.

With a freedom unavailable to me as a historian, my imagination was feeding off history that I had written.

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.

You can't be a good writer in the States anymore... Because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standards secondary to your writing. Thoreau himself couldn't do that in the States today... (Sept. 1953 letter to Millen Brand)