Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

Love, when it came and knocked on my door, was going to be enough. And that unknown author who'd written that if you had fame,… — Virginia C. Andrews
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I canâ€™t think of a higher honor… — Roberto Bolano
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks… — Joss Whedon
Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does.… — Jayne Ann Krentz
When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author. I feel as… — Neal Stephenson
A friend asked the author,"If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so… — Ravi Zacharias
As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author. — Chuck Palahniuk
The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be… — Gail Carson Levine
The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. — Jodi Picoult
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No two… — Robin Jones Gunn
Iâ€™ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. Thereâ€™s no way… — Shannon Hale
Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its… — Hannah Arendt
It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls,… — Hilary Mantel
Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every… — Tom Clancy
For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar… — Elizabeth Gaskell
But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous.… — John Green
Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. — Charles Dickens
The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the… — Jodi Picoult
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend.… — John Green

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