Quotes About Authorship

You could be writing the book that changes your life.

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own—my words are gone.

books spread across the comforter. Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own—my words are gone.

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.

First published in the US by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,

I call writing a sacred profession because I believe God chose the written word to communicate with man.

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

Pero, ¿Escribir sobre qué? buena pregunta.

Roth wrote The Breast . Would you ask him how he could do this since he had never been a breast? Adams wrote Watership Down . Would you ask him how he could do this since he admitted his rabbit knowledge came from a book about rabbits? ... And those hobbits!... I am a bigger risk-taker than these others. The Hoosiers can contradict me. No rabbit, hobbit, or breast has been known to speak up in reply to their exploiters.

author Agatha Christie was knowledgeable

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

It's this way, see--when a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader doesn't get any;then, after a while, the writer gets a little kick and the reader gets a little kick; and finally, if the writer's any good, he doesn't get any kick at all and the reader gets everything.