Authors Quotes · Page 8

“Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!”

— Carmen DeSousa

“If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.”

— Naomi Wood

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

— John Dryden

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

— Mary Lee Settle

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.”

— Seeley James

“Advice to my younger self: 1 Start where you are with what you have 2 Try not to hurt other people 3…

— Germany Kent

“It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different." "Not a mystery." Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."…

— Kate Morton

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors…

— Vikram Seth

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest…

— Richard Stallman

“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

“The window on the right featured contemporary bestselling authors like Brad Meltzer, James Patterson, David Baldacci, Nelson DeMille, and others who make…

— Nelson DeMille

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or…

— Laura Marling

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them…

— James Laughlin

“All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man…

— P.D. James

I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something…

— Julie Ann Dawson

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above…

— Paul Weller

“I love snowflakes simply for the reason that each one is unique—nonidentical to zillions of crystalized counterparts.  It's a difficult notion to…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create…

— Jon Favreau

I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel…

— Paul Di Filippo

“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“all I want to do is get home and never see any of you authors ever again,”

— Michael Chabon

The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.

— John Updike

“All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing”

— Carl Henegan

“God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged”

— Kerry E. Wagner

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

— Nigel Barker

I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.

— Robert Gottlieb

“Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.”

— Justin Alcala

“Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.”

— Yuri Boganov

“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”

— Angie-Marie Delsante

“You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.”

— Mary Papas

“Always pay homage to the soldier, and the harlot, for they are the martyrs of humanity’s growth”

— Michael Lieber

“Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman”

— Tracy Kauffman

“In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The ending to your book is different from the ending to your plot.”

— Jennifer Probst

“Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore