Quotes about Authorship
Habit 1 says, "You are the programmer." Habit 2, then, says, "Write the program." Until you accept the idea that you are responsible, that you are the programmer, you won't really invest in writing the program.
- Stephen Covey
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
- Donald Miller
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
- Joseph Heller
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
- Ernest Hemingway
I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
- Paulo Coelho
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 the other.
- Ernest Hemingway
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
- David Wilkerson
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
- Wayne Dyer
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.
- Ernest Hemingway
I just didn't know that you could have a voice and an authorship over a film, which probably sounds a bit silly. But I just hadn't really thought about films in that way.
- Kate Herron
Someone once asked Somerset Maugham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. That's a pro.
- Steven Pressfield
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
- Paulo Coelho