Quotes About Authorship

Novel writing wrecks homes.

Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.

I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of raw carrots.

Writing, for me, means humility. It's a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you're writing honestly.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you don't think I'm a journalist.' And, uh, turned out we were both right.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

To write a novel, you need an iron butt.