Quotes About Authorship

Blomkvist had heard this line before. He had even spoken to an old lady who claimed that it was actually she who had written the Harry Potter books and that J. K. Rowling had stolen everything by telepathy.

He had finished and collected the three years of drafts [of Infinite Jest] , and finally sat down and typed the whole thing. Wallace didn't really type; he input the giant thing twice, with one finger. "But a really fast finger.

There are three rules for writing the novel," said W. Somerset Maugham. "Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!

I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.

Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.

Writing is a bit like being a god

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I say, "Which one, for God's sake, I've done six now!" "Oceans of Sound".

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.