Books Quote by Terry Pratchett

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest…

— Teju Cole

We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal act. Contrary…

— Natalie Goldberg

I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were…

— Todd McFarlane

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice…

— Richard Stallman

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why…

— Anita Pallenberg

Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look…

— Dan Poynter

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair!…

— Jackie Collins

That sort of effort has to come not only from the writer but also from a really innovative publisher like Quirk.

— Theodora Goss

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

— Mark Millar

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

— Emma Donoghue

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem