Accepting Quote by Victor Hugo

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she…

— Manuel Puig

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is…

— John Green

An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if…

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the…

— Louise Erdrich

“If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a part of…

— Terena Scott

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

— Anthony Horowitz

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented…

— Donalyn Miller

“You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're…

— H.P. Oliver

To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human…

— Alberto Manguel