Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them.… — Larry Kirshbaum
I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author. — Amish Tripathi
You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed… — Walter Kirn
There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross. — Peter O'Toole
For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report… — Jack Canfield
The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think.… — Craig Brown
My #1 job as a thriller author is to give readers the best white-knuckle thrill ride I am capable of. I am first and foremost… — Brad Thor
It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be that… — Ruth Ozeki
Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do a couple of… — John Searles
I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books. — Caroline Leavitt
Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three key… — John Battelle
I am happy because I am no longer an author. — Karl Ove Knausgard
Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as… — David Rakoff
I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to find time to… — Nigel Barker
Aleta St. James is an internationally renowned energy healer, life coach, best selling author, and more. Aleta does private sessions to release old resistance and… — Jenna Morasca
According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the world… — Del Quentin Wilber
My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and puzzling… — Shane Carruth
I want to be an author. — Harry Lloyd
As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big… — Valeria Golino

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