Boards Quote by Margaret Atwood

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate…

— Arthur Koestler

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I hear you're a writer,' said 2040..."What are you writing about?' Not liking to discuss my writing with strangers, I had been privately auditioning…

— Phoebe Damrosch

“People don't know they want to become an author until they meet me.”

— Lucas J. Robak

“You know you're a writer when you wish you could meet your characters and hang out with them.”

— Kerry Frith

“The road to publication can be rough, take snacks and a friend.”

— Elizabeth Hein

“I find it very disturbing to be advertised, as I have noticed that it is the advertised authors that stink. I am pretty sure…

— E. B. White

I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in person and…

— Christie Golden

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and…

— Norman MacCaig

“In a gathering, a writer's eyes act as an intrepid explorers. When alone, he murmurs to himself posing as his characters. When invited to…

— Gaurav Sharma

“It's a funny thing, really, me publishing a book… I've had so many people tell me it was stupid or impossible or that I…

— Molly Lynn Robinson

“but you are very well aware that I belong to that remarkable class of authors who, when they are bearing anything about in their…

— Leslie S. Klinger