“...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Linda Heavner Gerald has been selected as a contestant in the Author's Show!” — Linda Heavner Gerald Copy Share Image
“I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.” — Peggy A. Borel Copy Share Image
I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky. — Felice Picano Copy Share Image
It can be difficult workshopping novels because any questions or qualms you have as the author can be like, 'That's next chapter,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“Though I didn’t start out plotting a life for Meg, it happened as the writing and the storylines unfolded, much like life… — R.J. Harlick Copy Share Image
I like acting, alright, and it can be fun sometimes, but the process of it, of not being - not being the… — Todd Louiso Copy Share Image
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
“As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. Author unknown — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience… — Charleston Parker Copy Share Image
As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Dance, Live, Sing, Cry, Love, Travel and Love again, until the day you have to stop” — Vanessa Vanney Thompson Copy Share Image
I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“But as an escort it’s our duty to hold their attention and play with their heads. The one between their ears and… — S.K. Logsdon Copy Share Image
“An author is just someone who remembers their dreams a little better than some others.” — T.C. Slonaker Copy Share Image
“Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.” — Nadège Richards Copy Share Image
I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else? — Eric Hill Copy Share Image
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
A lot of the books I read are in Spanish. There's this great author, Garcia Marquez. — Al Horford Copy Share Image
“Author Dating Rule #3: Edit your online dating profile. Pervs are the million pennies lying in a vat of ten nickels.” — C.L. Matthews Copy Share Image
“Showing your compassion to another human takes less energy than hating him.” — Ben Midland Copy Share Image
The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“If the overuse of adjectives is frowned upon in writing, why are expletives—the ones commonly used as adjectives—embraced?” — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
“Love yourself unconditionally.Do what you love to do.Be grateful for what you do have.Happiness is an attitude of gratitude.Love all of life.” — Jan Porter Copy Share Image
“The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.” — Ben Midland Copy Share Image
“The best way to write is to lock yourself in a small room until you become so bored that the only thing… — Jack Freestone Copy Share Image
