Books Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— Jeanne Calment

The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new…

— Julia Quinn

The problem with most of the want-to-be authors is that they are unable to focus. Either they have no idea of where to begin,…

— Ravi Subramanian

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

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

— Micah Perks

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms,…

— Helen Oyeyemi

The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.

— Emily Giffin

As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

— Phil Collins

The one author who has influenced my writing the most is the English writer John Fowles, who wrote 'The French Lieutenant's Woman,' 'The Magus,'…

— Elizabeth George

Among non-fiction authors I like Richard Bach, Nichiren Daishonin, Burton Watson, Deepak Chopra and MJ Akbar.

— Mukul Dev

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of…

— Robert Gottlieb

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

— Fannie Hurst