Quotes About Authorship

Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words.

I begin early in the morning and edit everything I wrote the previous day. I write until mid-afternoon. My goal is to write a chapter per week, and if I am not finished by Friday, I write on the weekend. I get a lot of fan emails and answer them every day. In the late afternoon, I attend to the business of publishing, etc.

It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

I have sort of weaned myself off of reading my own reviews, which is a constant struggle.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.