Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.
I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.
As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.
A misconception that exists in the eyes of the general reading population is that authors make truckloads of money.
Readers are always surprised to learn that authors have little or no input regarding the cover art for their books.
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?
I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
Before I went into parliament I used to write business publications, and like many authors wrote under a business name.
Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I've always written with someone else.
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
I know most publishers probably don't let their authors write on Wattpad all the time, but mine are pretty open about it.
I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.
Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.
When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.
In non-fiction, I like Wayne Dyer. I have a compilation of his best quotes near my bed! To me he's one of the finest authors.
Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.
I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.
Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
With 'Crucible,' any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.
I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.
The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.
I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.
We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.