I think as an author every character ends up low-key being some kind of self-insert. — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
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I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
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I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science. — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
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Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
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