Quotes about Authorship
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
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 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
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