Quotes About Authorship

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.