Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, theyâ€™re doing work that… — Seth Godin
This is our story to tell. Youâ€™d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I havenâ€™t. Iâ€™ve… — Jandy Nelson
For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that. — Neil Gaiman
Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee! — Brian Jacques
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that… — C.S. Lewis
Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition… — C.S. Lewis
As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish… — David Morrell
The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast — Rachel Caine
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — AndreÃ¯ Makine
One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to… — Tom Stoppard
If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry poem.… — Jay Asher
If I become the most popular author in jump, please give me the right to end one manga I hate. — Tsugumi Ohba
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and… — Voltaire
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie â€“ "not just sketches, but real art". She then describes… — Bethany Hamilton
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly… — Billy Collins
It has oft been said that physicians make the worst patients, but it is the opinion of This Author that any man makes a terrible… — Julia Quinn
What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something… — R C Sproul

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