Quotes About Authorship

People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.

If you can't find the book you want to read, write it.

Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,And frantic-mad with evermore unrest.

Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.

Still question'd me the story of my lifeFrom year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunesThat I have pass'd.

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, forced himself to write by disrobing and giving his clothing to his valet with strict instructions that it not be returned until he had written the allotted pages.

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

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

No other New Testament writer presents this matter in the way Paul does. This indicates that Paul had a great deal to teach other believers. But although Paul knew more and had more, he was not proud.

The creator of an apologia dares to speak personally … autobiographically and candidly and always vulnerably … about his or her engagement with the ideas and progress of ideas being presented.

I address J as a living writer in greater detail, as well as the Hebraic culture in which she attained her scholarship, in my previous books appearing after The Book of J (in particular, Abraham: The First Historical Biography, The Book of David, and The Lost Book of Paradise). And in the The Book of J, coauthored with Harold Bloom, I began to describe the textuality of J's narrative, while both Bloom and I first addressed the likelihood of J being a woman.

one of the smartest ways to write fiction today is to say that you're not, and then to do whatever you very well please. Fiction writers, take note. Some of the best fiction is now being written as nonfiction.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

You know you are a writer when you talk about your characters as if they were real people!

I chose to be a writer no more than I chose to be female.

I write because it's a beautiful habit

I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books.

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100, 000 You are a writer.

If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.