Authors Quote by Italo Calvino

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

— Jean Rhys

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about…

— Adam Braver

“Readers often feel they know an author because they’ve read their books. To a degree, this is often true. We write from our individual…

— Cheryl St.John

“The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages…

— Oscar Wilde

I'm a book nerd, and I've seen authors that I love, I've gone and seen them speak or read from a book.

— Duff McKagan

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

— Kevin J. Anderson

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

— Elena Ferrante

I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his favorite food…

— Teddy Wayne

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

— Johann Georg Hamann