About Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some…

— Martin Luther

It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why…

— Wilfrid Sheed

There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours…

— Michael Longley

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

“I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of it is…

— Lev Grossman

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.

— Anderson Cooper

Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge.…

— Joe Eszterhas

There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material.…

— D. B. Weiss

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

— George Sand

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

“There's this word Libel that people love to pass around when filing lawsuits against someone who accurately described them in a publication. It does…

— Niedria Kenny