Books Quote by Guy Gavriel Kay

The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

— Donna Tartt

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

— Edward M. Lerner

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

— Laura Hillenbrand

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

— Hilary Duff

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

— David Benioff

I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in which there's…

— Wole Soyinka

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow

“The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't”

— Emma Iadanza

“Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.”

— F. Sionil José

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

— Tony Kushner

The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger MWA can…

— Charles Todd

“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange. Some, downright weird. But…

— Christopher Hopper