Quotes About Authorship

I have been a print journalist.

I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one I'm most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.

I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers.

I soon abandoned the question of who Kurban Said or Essad Bey was for the more problematic one - who was Lev Nussimbaum?

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

I'm not interested in being the producer of somebody else's song.

I am happy writing and being a producer not a director.

My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well, as there's already enough producers.

I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other.

Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.

Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby, and you know what's best.