Quotes about Authorship
Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
He hasn't written a line for twenty years. A line of what? What kind of literature can one keep corked up for twenty years? Wade surprised him. The real kind, I should say.
- Edith Wharton
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
- Aldous Huxley
Massachusetts, whose constitution, as to this article, seems to have been the original from which the convention have copied.
- Alexander Hamilton
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
- Candace Bushnell
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
- William Wordsworth
Dawn is purely a work of fiction, but I wrote it to look at myself in a new way. Obviously I did not live this tale, but I was implicated in its ethical dilemma from the moment that I assumed my character's place.
- Elie Wiesel
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.
- Ann Voskamp
Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.
- LM Montgomery
When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we had to follow.
- Frank Peretti
I've always had a maturity within my writing.
- Sabrina Claudio
I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.
- Frank Peretti