Authorship Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is…

— Terry Eagleton

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any…

— Michael Cunningham

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer…

— William Saroyan

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer…

— Ben Hecht

“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a day to…

— John Gardner

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

— Agatha Christie