“You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
“You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant. — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.” — A.K. Kuykendall 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
“I'm going to be a person who writes stories. I never told mom and dad how much I loved them. I wanna… — Aoboshi Kimama Copy Share Image
“I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“A demon, who serves to a warlock, begins tormenting his master, if he has not enough work. Talent is the demon.” — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
“A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
“Only a few short years ago, the average stay-at-home mom spent her relaxation time reading Jackie Collins and staring at the pool… — Pete Morin Copy Share Image
The great thing about the Cthulhu shared-world setting is that no one owns the copyright, so I'm not constrained by publisher conventions,… — David Conyers Copy Share Image
“An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I hardly give 5 stars to a book in my review. I do not want the authors to reach a saturation point,… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
“Cold November nights. It feels as if summer never happened. The beauty of setting sun, moon, and stars. Sailing to nowhere, but… — Fidelis O Mkparu Copy Share Image
The general public doesn't expect romance authors to be Harvard graduates. Which is funny, because there are actually quite a lot of… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice,… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
J. K. Rowling is one of my favourite authors, and I really admire how she created this big wizarding world. But I… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman” — Tracy Kauffman Copy Share Image
“In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.” — Jorge Luis Borges 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
“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.” — Angie-Marie Delsante 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
I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. — Robert Gottlieb 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
“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
“all I want to do is get home and never see any of you authors ever again,” — Michael Chabon 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
“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
