Authors Quotes

We are the authors of our own disasters

— Latin Proverb

“That woman must have been a husky in a previous life.”

— Mary Papas

I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.

— Gena Showalter

“I enjoy writing alone, naked and unbothered.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

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— K.J. Charles

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

— Eric Bentley

“Every talented authors were used to be otherwise.”

— AshaD

Authors have a nationality; books do not.

— Leila Slimani

“we are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.”

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

— Samuel Johnson

“Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.”

— Jennifer Salaiz

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

— John Boyne

“A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged”

— Kerry E. Wagner

“Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.”

— Anonymous

“How…will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.”

— Sanober Khan

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

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

— Nelson DeMille

“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

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

— Richard Stallman

“romance authors like Catherine Coulter, Brenda Joyce, Candice Proctor, Bertrice Small, Diana Gabaldon, and Jade Lee.”

— Ellery Adams

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

— Germany Kent

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

— Vikram Seth

“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

“Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it,…

— Donalyn Miller

I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on…

— Julia Quinn

“Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always…

— Neil Gaiman

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from…

— Greg Graffin

“What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find…

— R.M. Engelhardt

“But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“If you ask for my opinion in what regards Tim Ferris, Eckhart Tolle, Rhonda Byrne, Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling, you…

— Robin Sacredfire

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

“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

“There are few books that set out what a mature person can believe - someone fully grown up, I mean. Aristotle's 'Ethics',…

— Robert Nozick

“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

“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow…

— Jeff Phillips

“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Although my road to writing seems like it may have come easily, there were a few bumps in that road. I didn’t…

— Nina Jean Slack

“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange. Some, downright…

— Christopher Hopper

“Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right. If they hate…

— Stacia Kane