Authors Quotes

523 Authors quotes by 418 unique authors

Technically, web browsers can control what users see, and sites using Javascript can overwrite anything coming from the original authors. Browsers heavily utilize Javascript to… — Ben Shapiro
I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their… — Mikhail Sholokhov
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of… — Eleanor Catton
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections… — Jami Attenberg
The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States. — Stephen Kinzer
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. — Stephen Kinzer
We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically. — Robert Gottlieb
I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. — Robert Gottlieb
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. — Robert Gottlieb
In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will… — Robert Gottlieb
Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market their stories in… — Daniel Suarez
Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books. — Chris Van Allsburg
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set… — Ma Jian
The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. — John Updike
Authors should be honored only for their works. — John Updike
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. — John Updike
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have… — Edmund White
I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book. — Scott Turow
Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. — Richard K. Morgan
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. — Karin Slaughter
Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic. — Alison Tyler
Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings. — Liz Williams
There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic… — Candace Camp
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author. — Orhan Pamuk
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham… — Giles Foden

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