101 Quotes About Authors-on-writing

The process of creation can be unpredictable and, in some way, similar to love: the brightest waves of inspiration may sometimes occur in wrong timing, wrong places, or even with wrong people.

The relationship I have with my characters is complicated.

If no one reads your books, are you still an author?

I Can See Nothing But The Bottom Sides of Her Shoes, And Then All Became Ample Dark.

The Internet Changed My Life.

You're not the butcher, selling sausages. You're the cow, pre-sausage.

Stop calling yourself an authoress. You sound like an idiotess.

It’s important to point out that most, if not all, writers are writing in a tradition that stretches further back than their own books.

Writing is a sacred calling that pulls at the soul. It is the air you breathe. It flows through the veins like a carmine river, and pumps the heart. It is a part of you. Putting a pen between shaky fingers over the unknown vistas of pale opportunity is not for the faint of heart. It is an enduring struggle that takes control of you.