Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author. — Derek Landy
It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man… — P.G. Wodehouse
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person weâ€™re reading about, while reading about them. Thatâ€™s why there is symbols in… — John Green
Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun… — Jasper Fforde
My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I hadnâ€™t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did… — John Green
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard… — Joseph Brodsky
Youâ€™ve thrown down the gauntlet. Youâ€™ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the… — Chuck Palahniuk
WARNING: The following is a transcript of a digital recording. In certain places, the audio quality was poor, so some words and phrases represent the… — Rick Riordan
The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome… — Katherine Mansfield
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. — Connie Willis
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that… — John Green
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? — Alain de Botton
New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo. — Jim C. Hines
In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become… — Madeleine L'Engle
When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten — Ian C. Esslemont
I've always been led to believe that the ultimate goal for an author is the movie deal. Now I understand that the movie deal is… — Kristin Cashore
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957) — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows… — Terry Pratchett
I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to… — Joe Hill

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