Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author. — Elbert Hubbard
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting… — Mark Twain
[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your… — Neil Gaiman
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And… — Ray Bradbury
To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his… — Robertson Davies
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able… — Matthew Gregory Lewis
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself? — Milan Kundera
The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to… — Mary Roach
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, â€œare not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the… — Jorge Luis Borges
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if… — Daniel Handler
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought,… — Cynthia Heimel
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have… — Orson Scott Card
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common… — Oscar Wilde
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western… — Carlos Fuentes
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good,… — John Adams
We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. As author and mythologist… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
John Bunyan, author of the classic book the Pilgrimâ€™s Progress, said â€œYou have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannot… — Joel Osteen

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