Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author. — Samuel Johnson
Why donâ€™t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.â€ â€œI have one,â€ she said, â€œbut I donâ€™t think itâ€™s very good. Half… — Julia Quinn
In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter… — N.D. Wilson
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who… — Susanna Clarke
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is… — Howard Pyle
What does she (J. K. Rowling) hope people will take with them about this time? â€œWhen all the fuss and hoopla dies away, and when… — Melissa Anelli
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. — Brandon Sanderson
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. — Voltaire
A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: â€œWhom do you write for?â€ The question is,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over — C.S. Lewis
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within… — Aberjhani
Finally, Everybody Hates Chris is on, isn't that right Alice?? Plus, I dont know why they say to put author name for a stinkin' quote.. — Erin Hunter
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of… — Stephen King
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most… — R. Buckminster Fuller
There isnâ€™t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce… — Kurt Vonnegut
Classic author moment, "Oh dear, did I kill that character or not? — Gail Carriger
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have… — Charlotte Bronte
It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who… — Susanna Clarke
There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is… — S.M. Stirling

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