Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka
I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author. — Isaac Pitman
Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have enriched the musical… — Bob Brookmeyer
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private… — Mary Abigail Dodge
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a… — Rachel Corrie
I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. — Tara Bray Smith
The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of his… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work,… — Eric Greitens
SeÃ¡n Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while… — Joe McNally
The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces. — Paul Halmos
Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the… — Antonya Nelson
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. — Kevin J. Anderson
As much as we don't want to hear it, book marketing is a huge part of becoming a successful author. — Heather Hart
The Book of Mormon was written for us today. God is the author of the book. It is a record of a fallen people, compiled… — Ezra Taft Benson
We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the… — Martin Luther
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. — Evelyn Waugh
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions… — Robertson Davies
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. — Sarah Fielding
I think of myself as a very lazy author. — Neil Gaiman
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil. — Steven Saylor

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