Absurdity Quote by Mac Barnett

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

— Walter Savage Landor

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

— Laura Hillenbrand

“Authors are really polite and down to earth, it's just people always have a sarcastic and bully approach towards them. There is nothing wrong…

— Himmilicious

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege,…

— Charles Lamb

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear…

— Saul Bellow

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

— Horace Walpole

“Sometimes even your favourite authors can let you down. However don't let them down by holding this against them.”

— Dave Gibson

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

— Susan Howatch

“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave…

— Hal Zina Bennett