Quotes About Authorship

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

Writing... is ... brave. You are brave.

You were given the amazing ability to create universes out of twenty six letters and you're going to the mall? Are you nuts?

Yes, after every book is finished I decide it is the last one, and then I get an idea in my head and it germinates and before I know it I've started typing and we are off again.

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

I began to feel that itch that every writer longs for: the itch to start getting words down, the itch to tell a story.

But the thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas. Almost before I could help it, Siobhan's ideas were suggesting new ones to me, and I began to feel that itch that every writer longs for: the itch to start getting words down, the itch to tell a story.

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If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

One of the things I hear a lot from people is how they found my book, or how they've shared it with other people. This always warms my bitter old heart, not just because I like selling more books, (though I do) but because reccomending a book to a friend is one of the most sincere forms of flattery there is. If you read someone I wrote and like it enough to tell a friend, that means I've done something right. That means more to me than any sort of professional review….

To my patient fans, for reading the blog and telling me what they really want is an excellent book, even if it takes a little longer.

I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.

Nadie puede decir de dónde proviene un libro, y menos que nadie la persona que lo escribe. Los libros nacen de la ignorancia , y si continúan viviendo después de escritos es sólo en la medidad en que no pueden entenderse.

Half the people I know want to be writers. Why do you say want? If you're already doing it, then it's not about the future. It already exists in the present.

No one can say where a book comes from, least of all the person who writes it. Books are born out of ignorance, and if they go on living after they are written, it's only to the degree that they cannot be understood.

How to get out of the room that is the book that will go on being written for as long as he stays in the room?

Nimeni nu poate spune ce anume d? na?tere unei c?rti, ?i cu atât mai pu?in cel care o scrie. C?r?ile se nasc din ignoran?? iar dac? tr?iesc ?i dup? ce au fost scrise, asta se întâmpl? numai ?i numai pentru c? nu pot fi în?elese.

At 4:32 I arrive at my desk, read what I have written the day before, rip it up, eat it, then sit, absolutely motionless for a period of six hours and eighteen minutes, waiting to be inspired

Writing books hurts like no other kind of writing.

No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.