Author Quote by Anne Michaels

Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

“Readers often feel they know an author because they’ve read their books. To a degree, this is often true. We write from our individual…

— Cheryl St.John

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the…

— E. L. Doctorow

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

— Aidan Chambers

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

— Don DeLillo

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life;…

— Pascal Bruckner

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK…

— Charles Todd