Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by… — Harold Bloom
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and… — Joseph de Maistre
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand… — Alfred de Vigny
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the… — Martin Amis
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the… — Aleister Crowley
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader. — Julian Barnes
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author! — Natalie Merchant
I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to… — Laurie Notaro
The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older.… — Dave Barry
I know the author of my every breath, oh that's Jesus. — Randy Travis
We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of credit by which… — Samuel Roth
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. — Andrej Pejic
I would very much like to become a best-selling author. — Manuel Puig
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors. — James Rollins
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to… — James Rollins
As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most… — Jonathan Stroud
Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do. — Alexander McCall Smith
Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make up characters and… — Maureen Johnson
Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a… — W. Somerset Maugham
I became a children's author by accident. — Jerry Spinelli

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