Quotes About Authorship

Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Yes, I could stop writing... But only after I shoot myself.

A liar with a pen is a writer

Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.

When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.

If you have nothing good to say about someone, write a book about them. - Carmen Fox, Life Motto

How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and, ' 'the, ' and 'I, ' and 'it, ' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.