Authorship Quotes

I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised...

He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to b...

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications gener...

Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid p...

The Author To Her BookThou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth did'st by my side...

From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the d...

A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these ...

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own child...

Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person...

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of you...

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of you...

You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man wal...

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his pro...

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and ...

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours ...

All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor....

After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to se...

[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth m...

One picks one's way about through the glass and aluminum doors, the receptionists' smiles, the lunch...

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done,...