Quotes About Authorship

You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.

I read to learn from the greats but I write to compete with them.

To read is to empower, To empower is to write, To write is to influence, To influence is to change, To change is to live".

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

La motivación para escribir un buen libro la da el tener algo importante que contar.

Writers are always pirates, marauding, taking whatever pleases them from others, shaping these stolen goods to our purposes.

I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three worlds they will be entering when they pick up one of my books.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Everything about the guy screamed FICTION WRITER, though the species itself broke down more or less evenly into the subcategories: 1. Great American Novelist 2. -New York Times- Bestselling Author Or that highly rare hybrid... 3. -New York Times- Bestselling Great American Novelist

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

The first draft of the entire six book series was written at one time, in one single burst of creative energy, over a four month period of 12 to 16 hour days of sustained writing, during which I did almost nothing else except additional research. I thought at the time that it would be one novel, Earth's Children, but it fell into six parts. It was only on rewriting that I realized that I had instead written an in-depth outline for a six book series.

I don't know why my books are so popular. I'm writing to please only myself, a book I would like to read.

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.

It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.

I read Wolfe's new book _ The Story of a Novel_ and as usual he stole the whole damn thing from me. I am going to write and say will you please stop writing books you bastard.

I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going largely on his reputation.

There is no such thing as intellectual property.

Writing is writing

Well, for starters, Abraham Lincoln didn't write 'To Kill a Mockingbird.

the author supplies you with a satisfying ending in the last ten pages. This is nonfiction, which means it's about real life—which means the ending hasn't been written yet. And the only one who can write it is you. So, let me ask you: How does it end?