Quotes About Authorship

I would like to, at some point, do a cookbook.

Copyright law is too confusing.

I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write.

When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at base, it's a pretty costly enterprise.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

I want to write more and direct more, but only so I can keep practising my craft and be involved in the projects that really interest me.

I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

I've always been into creative writing.

I did playwriting, creative writing, short story, novelization.

I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'

I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.

Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.

I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

I love crime fiction, and I'm proud to be part of it, but I'm not without criticism for my own genre.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go about doing my next bit of work.