Book Quote by Sam Horn

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

— Patrick Ness

I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

— Larry Winget

I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being…

— Ann Patchett

Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for ourselves in…

— Jonathan Dee

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not…

— Leonora Carrington

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go…

— James Laughlin

Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and…

— James Laughlin

“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there…

— Roy Blount Jr

I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry.…

— Jim Butcher

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

— Marco Roth

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives,…

— Fred Saberhagen