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As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.

There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

My personal interest in IVF led me to author two reports into the availability of treatment on the NHS.

When you read 'author Katharine Holabird, creator of Angelina' and you're not even mentioned, you wince.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.

If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.

My position as the best-selling author at E! is secure - unless Salman Rushdie develops a show with them.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

I love anything by Deb Caletti. She's my absolute favorite young adult author. I love Ally Carter as well.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

Balancing an illustrator and author can be tricky, but I was an illustrator mostly before I wrote my books.

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

Without fail, the first question I am asked at any author event is, 'Are your books based on your real life?'

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.

A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

It's very hard to get one publisher to accept an author going over to the other author's company to collaborate.

My first feature, I made in France. There's a great respect for the author there - they don't change your stuff.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

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