Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Do not dictate to your author; try to become him,” Woolf proclaims. “Be his fellow-worker and accomplice.”

— David Mikics

“You may make a writer or a scholar of him, but you'll not make anything else. You may make up your mind of that.”

— C.S. Lewis

“I don't believe it pays to be a great author.”

— Jean Webster

“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Every so often an author comes along and changes the world. I am not that author!”

— Rachel Rueben

“Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.”

— Blaque Diamond

“Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.”

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.”

— Loren Weisman

“People don't know they want to become an author until they meet me.”

— Lucas J. Robak

“The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I am by profession an agent and no writer, so you will have to pardon any lack of literary flourish.”

— Julian Darius

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen