Quotes About Authorship

The author P. L. Travers once said, 'A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power. To this end, the book was the most powerful element of all.

Ugyanis írogatok olykor egy-egy elbeszélést. - Olykor elolvasok egyet-egyet. - Köszönöm. - Elbeszéléseket általában, nem az önét.

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

One man wrote War and Peace. Thirty-five screenwriters wrote The Flintstones.

John Correli: Did you kill Mr Boz, Miss Tramell? Catherine: I'd have to be pretty stupid to write a book about killing and then kill him the way I described in my book. I'd be announcing myself as the killer. I'm not stupid.

Lawrence Block called Telling Lies for Fun and Profit

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.

To fill in all the gaps in my knowledge beforehand was out of the question for me. I had to write now, or not at all. And I wanted to write.

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The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and my dog, I don't talk to anybody, and I just write.

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.

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 another.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.