“Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever undermine writers for life is much about writing and memories are well kept through writing” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The ending to your book is different from the ending to your plot.” — Jennifer Probst Copy Share Image
“Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.” — Justin Alcala Copy Share Image
I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman” — Tracy Kauffman Copy Share Image
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“A writer writes regardless... even though... notwithstanding... despite... at any rate... anyhow... nevertheless... in the face of... undeterred by... heedless of... and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
“Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I've actually started a list of questions that it would… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
As authors, most - most authors , our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Always pay homage to the soldier, and the harlot, for they are the martyrs of humanity’s growth” — Michael Lieber Copy Share Image
“You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.” — Mary Papas Copy Share Image
“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.” — Angie-Marie Delsante Copy Share Image
“Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.” — Yuri Boganov Copy Share Image
The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“all I want to do is get home and never see any of you authors ever again,” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged” — Kerry E. Wagner Copy Share Image
Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else. — Nigel Barker Copy Share Image
There is nothing to writing, you just sit at a type writer and bleed. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.” — Caron Kamps Widden Copy Share Image
“It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged” — Kerry E. Wagner Copy Share Image
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
