Quotes about Authorship
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
- Samuel Johnson
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
- Thomas Paine
The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.
- Lewis Sperry Chafer
You can make a lot of money from a book, but that is done by using a book as a marketing tool.
- Tucker Max
It is not easy to properly position and structure a book, not to mention to do the actual writing.
- Tucker Max
I hate to write, but I love to have written.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.
- Anne Lamott
I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.
- Candace Bushnell
A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal. -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337
- Candace Bushnell
I think my goal is to find a way to spend all of my time writing. I mean, sort of; true success is I'm doing nothing but writing if I do my job correctly.
- Shonda Rhimes
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
- Barbara Kingsolver