Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.
Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults.
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!
As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.
'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.
For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.
Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.
I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.
A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being told.
If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.
As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.
I used to put black ink on the author's name in a book and write my name instead to check how it would look there - such was my passion!
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.
Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!
I'm a mom. I'm a wife. I'm an actress. I'm an executive producer. I'm an author. I'm an entrepreneur, and I'm a sister and a best friend.
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.
I'm a single parent, a working mother, an executive, and an author. My greatest accomplishment will be to raise three wonderful children.
Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.
As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?
Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.
One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
I'm a strange kind of author - I like assignments. I wasn't clever enough to invent an iconic figure like Salander, but she's my kind of girl.
Young adult author Richelle Mead holds the distinction to perhaps be the only author ever to have a book banned... before it was even written.
Michael Lewis, author of 'Moneyball,' got special access for a profile of Obama for 'Vanity Fair' - but Obama insisted on redlining his quotes.