Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of… — Leslie Jamison
My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not… — Elizabeth Kostova
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or… — Nicole Krauss
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain… — Rachel Kushner
I was first published as a paranormal author back in the early 1990s. I was one of the founders of that original wave of paranormal… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often he manages to… — Herb Boyd
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptreeâ€™s writing.… — Robert Silverberg
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and… — Katherine Paterson
The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell… — Scott O'Dell
The best writing advice I had was [in] â€˜Heinleinâ€™s Rules for Writersâ€™ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that… — George R. R. Martin
You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech… — Karl Mecklenburg
I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I… — Carolina Herrera
A book can never be anything more than the impression of its authorâ€™s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to… — John Bartlett
If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the… — P. C. Cast
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when… — Pat Barker
I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge… — Jennifer Gilmore
I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing… — Jennifer Gilmore
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been… — Peter York
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

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