Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.

I'm far less a leader than a writer.

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

People do write books.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

Creativity in copyright law only means that you didn’t copy it from someone else …. Most works that are protected under copyright are not creative in the colloquial sense of the word.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!