Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being… — Henning Mankell
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy… — Alice Sebold
When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering… — Andrew O'Hagan
As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book. — Bernhard Schlink
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class… — Dorothy Allison
The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you… — Lois Lowry
I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending… — Jay McInerney
All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time,… — John Banville
I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want… — Katherine Paterson
William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written. — Kim Edwards
My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen… — Bryce Courtenay
Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I… — Sarah Dessen
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little… — Steven Erikson
The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not… — Vikram Seth
I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made. — Lauren Oliver
Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing… — Fletcher Knebel
A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. — Unknown Author
Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure… — Samuel Johnson
The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author. — Unknown Author
The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine… — Bill Watterson

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