Quotes About Authorship

Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions.

I'll live with whatever sentence I'll get in the end - I'll just finish my book.

My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every sentence you write.

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not written by me.

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

Christopher Miller

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me.

I've always said I want to have a book with my name on it in the shops one day, so to have that actually happen is beyond exciting to me!

I've always written short stories.

I write short stories. I write every day.

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.