Quotes About Authorship

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my time.

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

Writing my first book, 'Beautiful,' was the time that I was able to write the truth of it - that I was despairing at times, that I got depressed and felt like I couldn't cope. Writing became about being honest.

In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.

If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

I really just like to be at a desk.

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

When I was writing Shadow and Bone,' I really had no confidence as a writer. I had never finished a book before and I desperately wanted to finish a book for the first time.

I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask questions about details that I haven't even thought about.

Writing is hard. It takes commitment and determination and a good part talent. It's not an afterthought, an addendum - it's a career.

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.

My position as the best-selling author at E! is secure - unless Salman Rushdie develops a show with them.

I don't go back and read my own stuff too much, but there are times where I second-guess myself and said I could have done something different, like a line of dialogue.

I'm a big believer in writing really good dialogue.

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.