Author Quote by Sam Taylor-Johnson

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Anthony Horowitz

When you're chasing story lines, it's very challenging. It's hard enough to have a relationship in any case, let alone one where you're trying…

— Spencer Pratt

I believe that in a good collaboration, the authors bring their strengths to the story; one author's strength cancels the other author's weakness, and…

— Jack Dann

There are many readers of the book, who don't know anything about the authors and the artists. There is more than one author. It…

— Gabriel Ba

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

— Jerzy Kosinski

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I…

— Dan Simmons

By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided.…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Donna Tartt

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

— Wentworth Dillon