Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. — A A Milne
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. — Wilson Mizner
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. — Baron de Montesquieu
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. — Jeanne Moreau
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime. — Haruki Murakami
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. — Vladimir Nabokov
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. — Vladimir Nabokov
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. — Vladimir Nabokov
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. — Thomas Paine
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. — Blaise Pascal
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living… — Ross Perot
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed… — Steven Pinker
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations… — Luigi Pirandello
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about… — Terry Pratchett
An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone… — Terry Pratchett
For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering… — Terry Pratchett
I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author… — Terry Pratchett
I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being… — Rick Riordan
I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't… — Rick Riordan

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