Arise Quote by L. Sprague de Camp

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.

— Sjon

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and…

— Paul Di Filippo

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

— Jon Spaihts

Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises.

— Boyan Slat

The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the…

— Wilkie Collins

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come…

— Denis Diderot

Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.

— Jonathan Coleman

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding…

— Gertrude Atherton

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

— Jodi Picoult

I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching…

— Richard Bach

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

— Richard Hugo