Books Quote by Amélie Nothomb

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they…

— Anonymous

“The great novelists are philosophical novelists--that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”

— Albert Camus

“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

“Every author who straddles culture is inauthentic in a way.”

— Gary Shteyngart

“Many accepted authors simply do not exist for me. Their names are engraved on empty graves, their books are dummies, they are complete nonentities…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

— Alexander Pope

“Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all.”

— Dave Wolverton

“(A novel is) a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“as I reflected upon the matter, I discovered that these authors, in their books, were, after all merely making use of their own experiences…

— Booker T. Washington

“As artists, poets, healers, teachers, keepers of the sacred law, philosophers, astrologers, etc., their influence was extensive. A”

— Sophie Cornish

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

— Walter Savage Landor