Author Quotes

No author ever spar'd a brother.

— John Gay

“You’d drain someone dry for me?”

— Mari Mancusi

“Be good, or good at it.”

— Belo Cipriani

The book belongs to the author.

— Maxwell Perkins

I'm the author of my own misery.

— Lynne Tillman

“Mind over matter, pen over paper.”

— Carolyn M. Walker

“Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.”

— Shaun Hick

Meg Cabot is the best author ever

— Meg Cabot

“the author’s imagination or are used”

— Lynne Heitman

The devil is the author of confusion

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“I don't like to spend money; I like to spend time .”

— Jill Telford

“Never give up! And write for yourself first and foremost.”

— Aminah Iman

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought.”

— Bernard Jan

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

— Bill Gates

When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.

— Arthur Phillips

“Each and every decision you make, regardless of its level of intensity, is vitally important as you seek to do God’s will.”

— Elizabeth George

“Love withers but never dies. Its tendrils are embedded on fecund soil awaiting the nourishing spring to make it sprout once more.”

— Yefon Isabelle

“The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.”

— Leslie Austin

“Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come…

— Michelle M. Pillow

“He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser.”

— Kelly Moran

“A book always tells more about the author than the protagonist himself.”

— Sneha Mehta

“Starting the day - Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own…

— Carew Papritz

I admit to subscribing to all the celebrity rags. The best part of being an author is if the celebs aren't being…

— Lauren Weisberger

I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I…

— Tibor Fischer

“All aspiring writers say these things: "I will not compromise and write a best seller!"—as if they could! There may be a…

— May Sarton

I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am…

— Enrico Caruso

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable…

— Italo Calvino

“They fought because they loved the dance, and the weight of a sword in their hands. The clash and spark of metal…

— The Warrior Heir Cinda Williams Chima pg. 426

“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“What if a man could write everything that came into his mind. You could find there gems of wisdom, depth of utter…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an…

— Geoffrey Miller

“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I miss her | & not the type of missing when you’re alone, not the type when you’re broken down half drunk,…

— Brandon Villasenor

'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said…

— Ronald Frame

“1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the…

— Ron Dakron