Author Quote by David Grann

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

— Scott Turow

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

— Paul Kingsnorth

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 shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

— Horace Walpole

Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.

— Ruth Glick

You hear about people who write 15 to 20 novels. How do they do it? You just gotta do it.

— Gordon Lightfoot

People who can write a book usually do.

— Jilly Cooper

But authors before they write should read.

— Fanny Burney

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

— H. L. Mencken

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

— Elizabeth Kostova

Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

— Daryl Gregory

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment