[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.” — Naomi Wood Copy Share Image
“If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!” — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
“You're asking the cyborg fugitive and the wild animal to be the welcoming committee? That's adorable.” — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
“Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-pulling, but guiding, instructive, and inspirational--a south wind and not an east… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS: Be very careful who you give acknowledgement to in your books. Reason: That acknowledgement is in permanent, ink and… — Anita R. Sneed-Carter Copy Share Image
“An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
With 'Crucible,' any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I… — Troy Denning Copy Share Image
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,… — F. Sionil Jose 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
“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
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
“But 'I worked hard on this' doesn’t exempt you from criticism. Those harsh reviews aren’t about anyone being out to get me.… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My ultimate crush may be Judith McNaught - I met her once more than 20 years ago, and she was incredibly kind… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you call yourself an "authoress" on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly.… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“I write because writing is power. Writing is creation. When you write, you are as a god, a deity wielding his pen… — Jonathan Culver Copy Share Image
“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“We live, all of us, in sprung rhythm. Even in cities, folk stir without knowing it to the surge in the blood… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“The realization that a decline in the moral state impedes the flowering of literature is a feeling unique to the Jewish people.… — Rabbi Kook Copy Share Image
“I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
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