Quotes About Authorship

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can't erase my mistakes.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

In the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential -- the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin.

My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

When people ask me how I write, I always answer, "Out loud." It's the single most important piece of advice I give young writers. I insist, unequivocally, the greatest works that have every been written were – every one of them – written out loud. Learn that trick, teach yourself to listen to what you're writing, and your writing will improve immeasurably.

this book. It takes a village to raise a child, which is precisely what writing a novel is. If I have

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

You have no idea how the story ends. You're not its author.

She doesn't get to tell my story. I do.

If I'd been you and Manohar had said those things about my first story, I would have knocked his block off." All of this was said with a jovial smile on his cherubic face.

Why do I have to tell a story?" I asked. "Because if you don't tell the story, someone else will tell it for you." ? The Inheritance Games

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.' 

Just like I will decide my life. No more waiting for other people to decide things for me. I'm writing it right now.

The right of Enid Blyton to be identified

Who or what inspires you? I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself.

If you wish to be a writer; write! Send quote to a friend Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.

grammar will tell you how to write; but whether to write or not, grammar will not tell.