Books Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

— Edward M. Lerner

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the…

— Walter Jon Williams

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

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

— Greg Egan

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

— Henry Williamson

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional…

— Ian Rankin

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

— Micah Perks

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

The problem with most of the want-to-be authors is that they are unable to focus. Either they have no idea of where to begin,…

— Ravi Subramanian

“The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”

— Anonymous

The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is.

— Andre Aciman