Quotes About Authorship

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

nous avons toujours regretté que les habitudes de l'époque actuelle ne nous aient pas permis de faire paraître nos ouvrages sous le couvert du plus strict anonymat, ce qui eût tout au moins évité à certains d'écrire beaucoup de sottises, et à nous-même d'avoir trop souvent la peine de les relever et de les rectifier. (Études Traditionnelles, juillet-août 1950, Métaphysique et dialectique, note 4)

In der Tat ist Foucaults Werk ein verwirrendes Labyrinth, in welchem der Autor, der keiner sein will und in Wahrheit nie das ist, was er zunächst zu sein scheint, umherirrt und sich verliert.

He wrote short and he wrote often, which tended to obscure the fact that he wrote well. Unless it leads to obscurity, brevity is rarely praised (or employed) in the journals of, ah, serious literary criticism, and frequency is often equated with frivolity.

Nothing corrupts a man so deeply as writing a book; the myriad temptations are overpowering. I wouldn't presume—

los hombres incapaces de escribir son inofensivos; los capaces, no".

You were starting to sound a little like a Stephen King novel for a while there

The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Every biblical story reflects something that mattered to its author. Whenever we figure out what it was and why it mattered, we move a step closer to knowing who wrote a part of the Bible.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one's words and one's soul.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

this book has been written by a certifiably lazy man.

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-

Since I was a girl I always felt as if I would like to write stories. I never had that ambition or shine to make a name; first place because I knew what time and labor it meant to acquire a literary style. Second place, because whenever I wanted to write a story I never could think of a plot.

Most of us would rather read than write. There is always another article to read, one more source to track down, just a bit more data to gather. But well before you've done all the research you'd like to do, there comes a point when you must start thinking about the first draft of your report.

No," I said primly, I had no intention of being a writer because "I wouldn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world.

There are no guarantees of success, much less of quality. If you don't dare to be a mediocre writer, you'll never be a writer at all.

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not the writer or the director.

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.