Quotes about Authorship

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.

In a sense, I wrote the book about Jesus that I wanted to read.

I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.

There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Everything was really a story, penned or thought or acted out at some time by someone.

Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write.

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.