Authors Quotes

523 quotes by 418 authors

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You get a good review, and itâ€™s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally… — Alexandra Bracken
Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that… — Francis Chan
We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame… — Barbara Taylor Bradford
Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors. — Dan Brown
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! — Philip Larkin
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow… — Paul Di Filippo
Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it — Nella Larsen
Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the… — Alan Bennett
Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors;… — Walter Moers
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. — Tim O'Reilly
Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and… — Mitch Albom
People should be interested in books, not their authors. — Agatha Christie
Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor. — Christopher Hitchens
We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain. — Giacomo Casanova
Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts. — Dan Brown
There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but… — Michel de Montaigne
Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just… — David Mitchell
It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up… — William Goldman
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books. — Italo Calvino

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