Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius. — Thomas Mann
I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard… — Donita K. Paul
I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy… — Ryan Adams
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But… — Dorothy Parker
It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all. — A A Milne
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life,… — Azar Nafisi
anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author. — Madeleine L'Engle
Meg Cabot is the best author ever — Meg Cabot
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard).… — Edith Wharton
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic… — Milan Kundera
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression… — Oswald Chambers
There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny. — Ravi Zacharias
You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G. — Mary Roach
And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars, and… — Wendy Mass
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated… — John Donne
When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented… — Andrei Tarkovsky
I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - thatâ€™s kind of a gift to the author.… — Po Bronson
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read… — Mark Twain
In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about King Herod slaughtering… — Bart D. Ehrman
Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author… — Robertson Davies

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