Authorship Quotes

"I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own" "You can make anything by writing." "Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable." "Your job is to tell your story." "I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face" "When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it." "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed" "The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life" "Immature poets imitate mature poets steal" "The fun of writing lies in the creation, not in the recognition." "A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book" "I am, in large measure, the selfsame prose I write. " "It takes a long time to write anything that’s worth reading" "Don't talk about it; write." "Writing is an act of faith not a trick of grammar" "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer" "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."