Amount Quote by Laura Marling

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

— Donna Tartt

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

— Nadine Gordimer

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

“Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

— Horace Walpole

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes:…

— Robert Ludlum

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

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

— Frank Delaney

“I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is to know…

— Charles Bukowski

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver