Quotes about Authorship
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
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
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
— Virginia Woolf
I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
— Rainbow Rowell
In a sense, I wrote the book about Jesus that I wanted to read.
— Jay Parini
There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.
— Ellen White
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
— Erica Jong
Everything was really a story, penned or thought or acted out at some time by someone.
— Ted Dekker