Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing… — Anton Chekhov
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book, — William Godwin
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. — Tony Hillerman
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard… — Jacques-Louis David
I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more… — Vincent Bugliosi
The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author. — Scott Turow
The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. — R. Scott Bakker
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book. — Michael Lewis
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done. — Louis Leakey
Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in… — Friedrich Schleiermacher
If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? — Amy Purdy
It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead. — Austin O'Malley
Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces… — C.S. Lewis
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human.... And although you don't have complete control… — Toni Morrison
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. — Jerzy Kosinski
My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author. — Lloyd Alexander
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings… — Michel de Certeau
I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and… — Sarah Zettel
I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work… — Sarah Zettel
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the… — Okakura Kakuzo

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