Books Quote by Mickey Spillane

“And if publishers are too skittish to bite—sell it as goddamn fiction. Make yourself the author and change the names if necessary. Do whatever…

— Joshua V. Scher

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they…

— Anonymous

I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.

— Gena Showalter

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

— Horace Walpole

Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow…

— Patrick deWitt

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would…

— R. A. Salvatore

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

— Walter Savage Landor

“You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're…

— H.P. Oliver

I never admit to wishing I'd written something by another author, but if my name mysteriously appeared on the title page of 'The Guns…

— H. W. Brands

I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.

— Anderson Cooper

But authors before they write should read.

— Fanny Burney