Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 867 authors

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West with this memorable… — Gerald Haslam
Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. — Jeanne Gang
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events… — Barbara Kruger
I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all… — Chris Colfer
I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with the same kind of acting.… — William Powell
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings. — David Bowie
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor. — Iggy Pop
Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author. — Neil Gaiman
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you… — Art Spiegelman
Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's purpose during the… — Michael Warren
The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art. — Lewis Baltz
The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it… — George Pelecanos
I like writing teen characters because theyâ€™re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context… — Allan Stratton
I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written. — Dean Wesley Smith
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief… — Brian Evenson
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated… — Randall Balmer
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to… — Leslie Banks
We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature happily… — Harold Bloom
This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh will become part… — Grover Norquist

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