Top 100 Author Book Quotes
#1. I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders of the world.
Ivan Doig
#2. And in fact, writing is one of the worst-paid professions in the world: The average book sells fewer than 500 copies The average writer makes less than $10,000 per book advance. The average self-published author makes less $5000 in royalties per year.
Monica Leonelle
#3. The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well.
B.A. Gabrielle
#5. Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or rather, one might suspect from its length, to the end of all writing-pads then on the market.
Rebecca West
#6. Let me in, Emily, and I swear to you that you'll never regret it.
Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions
Elize Amornette
#7. All persons, places, and events in this book are real. Certain speeches and thoughts are necessarily constructions by the author. No names have been changed to protect the innocent, since God Almighty protects the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.
Kurt Vonnegut
#8. There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.
Louise Erdrich
#9. Forty minutes later, I leaned back in my chair, and looked at the thousand or so pages of manuscript towering on my desk. It hit me. Holy cow. This author had total control over this book. Total. And it was one of seven. One. Of. Seven.
Carla Bolte
#10. Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life
Charleston Parker
#12. I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.
Edith Wharton
#13. I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read.
Rodman Philbrick
#14. 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.
Bernhard Schlink
#15. Jana Aston is an emerging author of political romance. This is Jana's third book.
Jana Aston
#16. Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?
Arthur Conan Doyle
#17. If your author platform is not well built, you may lose readers to an inferior product that was simply easier to find because its platform was superior to yours.
Carole Jelen
#18. Characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any apparent similarity to real persons is not intended by the author and is either a coincidence or
David Foster Wallace
#19. A relationship book I once read told women to use the word 'fun' whenever possible. The author claimed it had a subliminal aphrodisiac effect on men, who want a relaxed girl attached only to good times - the human equivalent of Diet Coke. This is not me.
Julie Klausner
#20. The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the notion of the normal, mild-mannered person transformed into a mutant by freak accident.
Dave Eggers
#22. The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.
George Sand
#23. I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of.
Umberto Eco
#24. If you find a book you like on Amazon, please buy it somewhere else!
Robin Sacredfire
#25. Sometimes a soldier returns home and all he can do is share his story in the hopes that somehow, in some way, it helps another soldier make sense of things. And although the stories may not be perfect, sometimes just sharing is enough to make a difference.
Michael Anthony
#26. I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner.
Sam Horn
#28. [Author's Note: Barbara Hand Clow gives a much more detailed description and story about the photon band and the cosmological changes in dimensional relationships we are undergoing in her latest book, The Pleiadian Agenda: A New Cosmology for the Age of Light.]
Amorah Quan Yin
#29. Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
E.B. White
#30. The opinions expressed in this book are not those of the author
Arthur C. Clarke
#31. A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
William Gibson
#32. When you open a book, you open the mind of the author.
Teni Abegunde
#33. 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.
Robert Benchley
#35. As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.
Bernhard Schlink
#36. Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.
John Grisham
#37. With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?'
Joel Sternfeld
#38. The Book of Mormon was written for us today. God is the author of the book. It is a record of a fallen people, compiled by inspired men for our blessing today. Those people never had the book. It was meant for us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#39. There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.
S.M. Stirling
#40. As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people know it's out there, they can make up their own minds whether they want to read it.
Tibor Fischer
#41. Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean De La Bruyere
#42. Skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author.
Derek Landy
#43. There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#44. Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#45. A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.
Aditi Dufare
#46. The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
Norman Cousins
#47. Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
Michael Lewis
#48. I wanted to become immortal. So I wrote a book.
T.M. Williams
#49. I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book ...
Vladimir Nabokov
#50. My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.
Laurie Graham
#51. An author's strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher's commitment to it.
Sterling Lord
#52. i listed my faults under a book called
Retail Ramblings
by Kevin Domenic (Goodreads Author)
in the comments for the review by Leanne Bell, someone i love dearly and wish i never hurt and forced her to go.
Kevin Domenic
#53. If you are reading this, you will get what you want. Believe in yourself and that's inspiration.
Chandan Sharma
#54. Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like, "Done, next!"
Demetri Martin
#55. I'll tell you - there's no author that wants to give his mother an e-book of his new book. I think he wants to present her with - or she - wants to present her with something beautiful that he or she created.
Jonathan Galassi
#56. A presentation copy ... is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
Charles Lamb
#58. My daughter wrote a book. She is a New York Times Bestselling Author. Fabulous. Couldn't be more proud. She also has no health insurance. A 401 K? Dream on! My daughter left her stable corporate job to be a writer without dental benefits or a savings account, a.k.a. my worst nightmare.
Kate Siegel
#59. People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it.
Candace Bushnell
#60. An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.
Terry Pratchett
#61. I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
Ian Frazier
#62. I'm very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.
Cathy Marie Buchanan
#63. An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.
Claud Cockburn
#64. It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be that the author - me - is trying in some way to push my views onto my readers.
Ruth Ozeki
#65. When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away.
B.A. Gabrielle
#66. Ten years ago, you wrote a book and you never expected to find out anything about the author. Now with social media, everyone wants that connection. I think our readers want to be invited into our lives and brought on the journey and be part of this whole process.
Jane Green
#67. Adieu, sucky speed-reading critics and reviewers!"
Terry Dare, gothic author in Blatty's book "Elsewhere", just before he crosses over.
William Peter Blatty
#68. I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that's kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I'm grateful for it.
Po Bronson
#69. I believe the writer ... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.
Maxwell Perkins
#70. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
J.D. Salinger
#71. For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.
Rumer Godden
#73. Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world.
Jonathan Galassi
#74. Thirteen years have past since 1993, and I still have not seen one single book, documentary or anything to the biggest epidemic in Scottish, British prison history. I would go as far and say, no other prison in the world had fourteen men catching the HIV virus at the same time.
Stephen Richards
#76. Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others ... would also read the man.
Benjamin Disraeli
#77. An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.
Charleston Parker
#78. The materials in I Enoch range in date from 200 B.C.E. to 50 C.E. I Enoch contributes much to intertestamental views of angels, heaven, judgment, resurrection, and the Messiah. This book has left its stamp upon many of the NT writers, especially the author of Revelation.
Craig A. Evans
#79. There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don't see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don't think he would have liked at all.
Elaine Pagels
#80. A book is almost always a collective effort, even if it has only a single author.
Raghuram G. Rajan
#81. I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.
Stephen Chbosky
#82. It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner
#83. I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.
[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]
Joseph Dalton Hooker
#84. Once a book has left the brain of the author, it took on a life of its own, and served as the only liaison between the reader and the author. If you read carefully, the book could tell you all sorts of secrets-sometimes about its characters, and sometimes about its creator.
Catherine Lowell
#85. No one can command over the images of your mind but an Author can and if you won't believe on me then read my book.
Prakhar Srivastav
#86. Writing is something that you can learn only by doing. To become a writer, you need an imagination, which you clearly have. You need to read books, which you clearly do. And you need to write, which you don't yet do, but should.
Jeff Zentner
#87. Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#88. CUSTOMER: I read a book in the sixties. I don't remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it made me laugh. Do you know which one I mean?
Jen Campbell
#89. Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?
Alan Bennett
#90. This new book is going to get itself finished - and published! You see if it doesn't.
Jean Webster
#91. Be generous with your life - love deeply, honestly, and without reservation.
Carew Papritz
#92. The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whose author promises a blessing to those who read it.
Billy Graham
#93. Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
E.L. Doctorow
#94. I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#95. I have high hopes for the book and have already made a down payment on a Ferrari. Well, it's actually a small metal model of a Ferrari, kind of like a Dinky Toy, but a little bit bigger.
Paul Benedetti
#97. Good books don't make you think, because the author has already done all of the thinking for you, but a terrible book can really give your brain a workout, because you spend so much time wondering what incredibly dumb thing the author will say next.
Joe Queenan
#98. I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.
Rick Riordan
#99. Because this absolutely insane - the craziest thing I'd ever done. Worse than giving a one-star review, scarier than asking for an interview with an author I'd give my firstborn to eat lunch with, more stupid than kissing Daemon.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#100. Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.
Carla H. Krueger
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