Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
To be true to a play, you can't add something that takes away from the author's intent.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.
It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.
I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
I have the best fans of any author in the country and they deserve the best from me, too!
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
I became a children's author by accident. As far as I'm concerned, I write for everybody.
I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
I love going through fashion magazines, love to read - Paulo Coelho is my favourite author.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.
Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
I know that by the time I was in middle school, Andre Norton was definitely my favorite author.
I like female characters that are strong in their own right and not because the author said so.
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.
I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.
The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.
There's a truth that comes through when an author performs his own work that is unique and special.
The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.