Top Authorship Quotes

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.

Authorship Definition

(n.) The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.

(n.) Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.

I could doubt the value of my books as much as many do, except that, as a researcher and very curious person, I do read a lot too, and can clearly see the difference in value between what I do and wha...

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I woul...

There is this presumption, in those who feel destined for art and above all literature: we act as if we had received an investiture, but in fact no one has invested us with anything, it is we who have...

Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.

Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay...

We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the p...

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

In my opinion, the author-level metric can distort a real author's citation impact. For example, an author who has an h-index = 2 obtained on the basis of two published papers of which each is cited t...

Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.

When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of co...

Writing heals the quandaries of life.

If there's a will, there's a way!I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have become my own personal cheerleaders....as my fingers tap on my computer late into the n...

I don't know what love is, so I'll redefine it.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it...

The calling of an author is more than just to entertain, but also to share ones experiences with the world.

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

A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with his story, a knowledge shortcut.