Top 80 Being An Author Quotes
#1. Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
Elizabeth George
#2. I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.
Sara Sheridan
#3. Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.
Lauren Myracle
#4. The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't
Emma Iadanza
#5. Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
Junot Diaz
#7. Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make up characters and give them problem after problem after problem.
Maureen Johnson
#8. One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.
Henning Mankell
#9. I admit to subscribing to all the celebrity rags. The best part of being an author is if the celebs aren't being ridiculous enough, you can just make it up.
Lauren Weisberger
#10. Being an author is like being a kick boxer. You take a lot of hits to the head.
Judah Lee Davis
#11. I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people make interesting assumptions about the profession.
Sara Sheridan
#12. Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.
Scott Westerfeld
#13. If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
P.C. Cast
#14. Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.
Dav Pilkey
#15. Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.
Ken Hill
#16. Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.
Michael J. Kannengieser
#17. I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.
Tim Cope
#18. The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake.
Alex G. Zarate
#19. My reason for being an author? Because I love to write - it fulfills me. But the fact that I entertain others by doing it is a lovely bonus.
Chasta Schneider
#20. I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.
Terry Pratchett
#21. The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.
Lois Lowry
#22. A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.
Grant Achatz
#23. I love being an author - its the first job I've ever had where I'm paid to daydream. Greig Beck
Greig Beck
#24. There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.
T. R. Pearson
#25. Being an author of a book is like being a mother of a debutante in the Middle Ages. You have to present your baby to society and provide her with dowry, and in your heart, you hope that some royalty spends a night with her and ensures her way to success.
Elvira Baryakina
#26. One of my favourite things about being an author is waking up knowing that there are worlds just waiting to be discovered and created.
C.S. Woolley
#27. The beauty of being an Author is, It's your story and you can write what ever you want.
Toni House
#28. Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.
Hugh Howey
#29. To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Charles Caleb Colton
#30. I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.
Eve Bunting
#31. It's wonderful being an author and having so many kids enjoying my books. That's always been my dream job, and I feel very lucky to be able to do it.
Rick Riordan
#32. For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.
Patrick Rothfuss
#33. Results have nothing at all whatever to do with the private fun of being an author. There lies the answer to the problem which puzzles many wise people. Now it is plain why there are so many of us ... But the public fun of being an author is rather apt to wear thin ...
J. E. Buckrose
#34. When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#35. Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.
Geraldine Solon
#36. I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
Jan Karon
#37. I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.
Patrick Rothfuss
#38. My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
Karin Slaughter
#39. Writing is a solitary endeavor, being an author is not.
Karen A. Chase
#40. I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.
Jennifer Gilmore
#41. I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star.
Rick Riordan
#42. Your book is a springboard and integral strategic part of your overall game plan. Being an author positions you strongly upon your platform. It is the passport which will start you on your journey to becoming the recognized authority in the niche or space that you work in or aspire to work in.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
#43. You realize you are not alone when you write, and you start to write for the person who will read your words. I think that's a bad thing, but I'm not sure, because I do think of being an author someday, and authors have to commune with their readers.
Laura Amy Schlitz
#44. I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.
Neil Gaiman
#45. Being an author isn't just about making money or hitting the Amazon Bestsellers list, it's about the positive impact you and your stories make in peoples lives. Even if it's just one person.
Shannon Eckrich
#46. Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
Fennel Hudson
#47. It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#48. Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream
LaQuita Cameron
#49. The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.
Sol Luckman
#50. I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.
Carla H. Krueger
#51. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
Ambrose Bierce
#52. I'm tired of the anonymity of being an unpublished author. I crave the anonymity of being self-published.
Tristan Durie
#53. I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing.
Peter Sis
#54. Try being an indie author, a minority author, a woman, and a person with health issues in the world of traditional - that's where you are clearly 'different' and marginalized. I am all of that, yet I am still here and smiling. Life is good!
Kailin Gow
#55. This is vexing: I feel in a kind of limbo - an author but not truly an author, true authorship being conferred by having a book physically published - a thing you can hold in your hand, purchase in a bookshop.
William Boyd
#56. The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself
who according to the Rabbins was also the first author
not being an original; the only original author being God.
Herman Melville
#57. I believe in God, I just give him more credit than being a single parent and an author.
Bill Maher
#58. To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach, only to get back up on your feet and show the world how you survived it each time.
Shannon L. Alder
#59. Your favorite author? This was an important question. I'd dated men who had never read a book. Reading was a passion of mine and I couldn't imagine being involved with someone who didn't understand the importance of books and stories.
Debbie Macomber
#60. Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A.A. Milne
#61. An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops that bring life to the story being written.
M.J. Stoddard
#62. I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.
Winona LaDuke
#63. I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.
Henning Mankell
#64. To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#65. 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.
Steven Erikson
#66. In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
John Locke
#67. They paid people to write books!!! Until that moment I had a vague idea that books were produced in factories, like tires, or else they grew on trees, like money.
Gary Reilly
#68. My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.
Sloane Crosley
#69. The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
Augusten Burroughs
#70. The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.
Anthony M. Esolen
#71. Being on Facebook as an Author and listing your books is like being a tiny single word in a giant dictionary! If people don't search for you they don't find you. They don't take notice of you. They don't even know you exist! Thats the hard reality of Socialmedia!
Lily Amis
#72. Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
Cynthia Heimel
#73. My biggest fear isn't being a failure as an author but being a failure at being me.
Christina Noll
#74. The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published.
John Farrar
#75. The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea.
Carl Hiaasen
#76. Through writing, an author opens the window of his heart through which a reader can see the inner self of the author.
Debasish Mridha
#77. An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.
Lion Feuchtwanger
#78. There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.
Charles De Saint-Evremond
#79. Being wealthy gives them the option to live what author/philosopher Ayn Rand called "an unrestricted existence." This means having the ability to do what they want, when they want, with whom they want, for as long as they want, without limitations.
Steve Siebold
#80. The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the foregoing, is a direct consequence of the premises, which you have stated.
Christopher Hitchens
