Quotes About Authorship

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.

If we own the story then we can write the ending.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

You don't have INSOMNIA. You're a writer with an unfinished book!

When you write, you put your thoughts in the public space. You get both positive and negative feedback.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

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.

we are merely actors in a play written by someone else—more

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

...the curious hunter-up of rare quotations... the young and struggling scribbler...

In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights, of a mind of uncommon excellence.

As Meier observes, 'Perhaps one reason that we have so little from the historical Jesus on sexual topics is that, apart from the two special cases of divorce and celibacy, where he diverged from mainstream Judaism, his views were those of mainstream Judaism.'14

Goodreads helps quite a few people that love to giveaway their books. I donate some of the books that I get from goodreads.

possible in the various file formats. I also want to share what the self-publishing suppliers require as of the Summer of 2016. As you know,

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

I write not for sensation, but for Truth. I leave judgement to the hearts of my good Readers everywhere.

existe una violencia peor que el dolor de que no lo publiquen a uno: ¡que te publiquen y no salgas del más absoluto anonimato!

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