Books Quote by Samuel Johnson

“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and…

— William Dean Howells

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

— Anthony Horowitz

“Our lives are like books; we are merely characters in each other's stories. While we can impact each other's plotlines, respecting the authorship of…

— Erick "The Black Sheep" G

“Genuineness is often sacrificed in order to showcase the author's control over the form and subject matter, the end result technically sound but emotionally…

— Jennifer S. Davis

“The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present these in…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear…

— Saul Bellow

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Walter Savage Landor

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

— Anne Michaels

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of…

— C. S. Lewis

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy