"authorship"タグの名言

To take a thought, to gingerly package it in a handful of words, and then to deliver it to a person for whom both the thought and the words within which it came are life-saving is writing at its best. Anything else is scribbling at its worst.

Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.

Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words.

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.

I didn't write just one book, I wrote twenty books with the same title and published the last one.

I wish I could take credit for my writing, but the credit goes to my mother. She taught me to love reading, and without a love of reading I could not write.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.