Quotes about Authorship

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference.

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Hebrews: No one knows who wrote Hebrews, but it probably first went to Christians in danger of slipping back into their old, rule-bound religion. It interprets the Old Testament, explaining many Jewish practices as symbols that prepared the way for Christ.

When I was a 12-year-old middle-schooler in Richmond, Virginia, my local newspaper published an op-ed that I wrote all by myself.

If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then realize that you are its author. Every day you have the chance to write a new page in that story. I want to encourage you to fill those pages with responsibility to others and yourself. If you do, in the end you will not be disappointed.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

Everything's a mirror when you're a writer; the computer monitor is a mirror. Who thinks they are so important they need to write books about themselves? Who are these people who write about themselves, and how did I become one of them?

Remember that your life is a story. Why not write your own ending-and then make it happen.

Rick decided to publish it himself. To promote the book, he took a booth at a regional

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.