Books Quote by Malcolm Cowley

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

— Robertson Davies

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

— Walter Savage Landor

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

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

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

— Anthony Horowitz

“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a pet subject…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd…

— Laura Marling

“While I do see lots of repetitious writing among authors, that does not apply to all, and certainly not to me. Average minds think…

— Calvin W. Allison

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

— Donna Tartt

I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their…

— Neil Cross

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

— John Green

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

— Horace Walpole