Quotes About Authorship

I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed back because it wasn't the right time.

When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

I'm the least-experimental writer. The idea of trying things just for the sake of pushing the envelope, that's never really interested me.

He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.

The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a much better position to do the things I want to do.

To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.

When people write fan-fic sequels to one of your books, it gives you a very strange feeling. It is very flattering but strange, as if the characters have come to life again without you knowing.

For anyone to take the time to care about what I write and read a book is so flattering to me because it's fun.

My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

I've learned things about the craft of writing and about structuring a book and about character development and so on that I've just learned on the fly.

You shoot yourself in the foot when you think, 'We have to get a good scary movie director to do a script by another scary movie writer.'

It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

If I claim I'm the opposite of my characters, then it'll just sound awful. But I tend to write the sort of things I'd never say because I'm not a very forceful person.

When you're in the throes of writing, I find, the lessons you've casually imparted to others are not in the forefront of your mind. Which may be good or bad. Probably both.

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

If you want to be a writer, first and foremost, you must write. If you write, you're a writer. Period.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.

My forte is editing and I am most experienced in that. I love the challenge of playing with material and imagination while editing.

I'm one of those people who always wanted to be a writer, so I have a fair amount of juvenilia, though fortunately, I was too old for my juvenilia to be on the Internet.