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“The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their…

— Michael J. Kannengieser

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a…

— Graham Swift

“Intellectuals, freelance writers, investigative journalists, and midlist novelists are the analog to the family farmers, who have always struggled but simply can’t compete in…

— Franklin Foer

“Any good, persistent, business-minded, prolific writer can succeed if they keep writing and moving forward. For the modern author, that’s excellent news.”

— Sean Platt

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

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

— Jeanne Calment

There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft,…

— David Grann

The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

— Larry Winget

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

— Samuel Johnson

Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will…

— Lois Duncan

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