Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
The YA author community is generally pretty friendly, and they care.
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.
There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.
I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book.
Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life.
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?
The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.
I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.
I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like.
Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.
I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
I didn't have any great talent. I didn't want to become a rock star or an author.
Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.
What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.
I think as an author every character ends up low-key being some kind of self-insert.
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
A lot of the books I read are in Spanish. There's this great author, Garcia Marquez.
A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.
I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.
I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!
When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from £34,000 a year to £16,000.