“Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption For the sins committed before revelation.” — Carlos Salinas Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.” — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
“The Imagination of the Mind is the Treasury that although liable to theft, never ceases to grow.” — TheSleepingSorcerer Copy Share Image
“If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghetto Cuz where else in death do I get to go?” — Carlos Salinas Copy Share Image
“Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the… — Alison Tyler Copy Share Image
“I was smarter than him because I had a pen and God was my writer.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
“The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll… — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
“I might be tempted to socialize more if the conversations taking place around me were half as interesting as the dialogue going… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author… — Russell M. Goldfarb Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“Don't let the covers fool you. Books, like lives, are wiggling, evolving, living things. They're not bound by pages or authors or… — Kelly G. Wilson Copy Share Image
Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott… — Nava Atlas Copy Share Image
The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries;… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
“The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested.… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“There are few books that set out what a mature person can believe - someone fully grown up, I mean. Aristotle's 'Ethics',… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“My Aunt Dahlia, who runs a woman's paper called Milady's Boudoir, had recently backed me into a corner and made me promise… — Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occasionally hears an artist being… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“I have a pesky little critic in the back of my mind. He's a permanent fixture and passes judgment on everything I… — Rukhsana Khan Copy Share Image
“Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right. If they hate… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
