Quotes about Authorship

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

He writes because for him doing so is a luxury, the more agreeable and conspicuous the fewer who but and read what he writes.

If a woman doesn't write her own history, there are very few who will.

I'm given a lot of credit with opening the doors for Christian fiction. It was kind of a difficult field when I got into it... But I don't feel like a king.

One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest keeping a journal.

The principle of biblical inerrancy follows logically from this principle of divine authorship. After all, God cannot lie, and he cannot make mistakes. Since the Bible is divinely inspired, it must be without error in everything that its divine and human authors affirm to be true. This means that biblical inerrancy is a mystery even broader in scope than infallibility, which guarantees for us that the Church will always teach the truth concerning faith and morals.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.