Advantage Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow…

— Patrick deWitt

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

— Sinclair Lewis

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

— Rumer Godden

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic…

— Egerton Brydges

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

— Henry Williamson

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and…

— Stephen Fry

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

— Walter Savage Landor

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed…

— Ernest Hemingway

Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general degradation of…

— Philip Pullman