D. A. Carson Quotes

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.

We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them.

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

People either fall into two camps, where they're pro-fanfic, or they're anti-fanfic. I would not have had the skills to write and publish my first novel if I hadn't been writing fanfic.

I want to put out a few books throughout my lifetime.

I don't have a trunk of manuscripts.

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer.

I'm far less a leader than a writer.

But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to." "Just because anyone can do something doesn't mean everyone should," Mrs. Peters said. "Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

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 wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.

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

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!