Am Quote by Liu Cixin

Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the creative mind…

— Katherine Paterson

“You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're…

— H.P. Oliver

“Whose book is it anyway? The hardest thing a writer has to learn is that once you publish a book, it's no longer truly…

— Julie Bertagna

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist.

— Patricia McConnell

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

— Michio Kaku

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals…

— Paul Theroux

“I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

— Anonymous

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

— Mickey Spillane

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

— Tim LaHaye

Everything I publish is for my readers.

— Felix Dennis