Authorship Quotes

I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to speak for.

I am not covetous, but as ambitious as ever any of my sex was, is, or can be; which makes, that though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second, yet I endeavour to be Margaret the First; and although I have neither power, time, not occasion to conquer the world as Alexander and Caesar did; yet rather than not be mistress of one, since Fortune and Fates would give me none, I have made a world of my own; for which nobody, I hope, will blame me, since it is in everyone's power to do the like.

To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with his story, a knowledge shortcut.

I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.