Top 72 Best Authors Sayings
#1. I am deaf, I love to read the ebook and regular books. But I am not picky any kind of books. I love all books are best authors.
Charlaine Harris
#2. People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life.
Azar Nafisi
#3. Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.
John Turturro
#4. To find the best authors," he boasted, "is like being able to tell good wine without the labels.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#5. Truth is the aim of story. And though we must take into account the human author's subjectivity and personal slant, the best authors are those who tap universal longings and make connections to our real, lived humanity.
Sarah Arthur
#6. For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
Ben Jonson
#7. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that.
Walter Moers
#8. Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
Alain De Botton
#9. I write because it's the only thing I love that always loves me back.
Crystal Woods
#10. Adjusting to life's changes may be difficult and something you may not be looking forward to experiencing. Be gentle with yourself and you will find clarity on all levels of encouragement in places and by people you least expect. Remember as it has been said before: This too shall pass!
Steven Cuoco
#11. I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes ... put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack
Nina Jean Slack
#12. Adding FUN to learning creates the best educational experience possible.
Tamara L. Chilver
#13. I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#14. I'm contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#15. The best connections are the ones who are like-minded and who value quality, integrity, truth, passion for life and the desire share-it-forward while leaving an unprecedented legacy in the world."
-Steven Cuoco
Steven Cuoco
#16. The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.
Christos Tsiolkas
#17. Most authors would be the first to admit the best of their writing is beyond even them. It comes from someplace outside the conscious realm.
K.M. Weiland
#18. Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
Camille Paglia
#19. To live in a world that requires you to become someone else, being yourself is your best choice and most valuable accomplishment."
-Steven Cuoco
Steven Cuoco
#20. And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life
and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#21. Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.
Mary Russell Mitford
#22. The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet's eyes.
Vera Brittain
#23. Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in all honesty, it's harder to be a best seller self-publishing than it is with a house.
Amanda Hocking
#24. Go somewhere or go nowhere, the choice is yours.
Steven Cuoco
#25. Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
Albert Einstein
#26. Life is like a dream, when you wake up,
you only have memories.
Sheeja Jose
#27. Love at first sight is a polite phrase used when one wants to fuck a stranger.
Sheeja Jose
#28. 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
#29. We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery.
Steven Cuoco
#30. There is no pain and there are no sorrows. They no longer have permission to live in my today or my tomorrow.
Steven Cuoco
#31. We also sold books, creating several best sellers and helping to put unknown authors on the map.
Howard Schultz
#32. Make it a point to do something exciting. If not, your life will pass you by.
Steven Cuoco
#33. Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.
Bill Maher
#34. The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Rene Descartes
#35. The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.
A.K. Kuykendall
#36. The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.
Plutarch
#37. The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.
Ndiritu Wahome
#38. ...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.
And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her.
Ettore Scola
#39. As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
V.E Schwab
#40. I have never had the lust to meet famous authors; the best of them is in their books.
Michael Gold
#41. There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
Dan Simmons
#42. Your best day can always become a great day. Your attitude solely depends on this.
Steven Cuoco
#43. The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman
#44. There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
David Brin
#45. Thus far, I've devoted my entire career to publishing genre short fiction, but I now look forward to applying that same level of curation to finding the best new novels and new authors.
John Joseph Adams
#46. Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best of my recollection, I became a reader at the age of 10 and have never stopped. Like many authors, I read all sorts of books all the time, and it is amazing how the mind fills up.
Terry Pratchett
#47. I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day.
Lisa McMann
#48. There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can't possibly get to these and do what they do best.
Tim O'Reilly
#49. The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!
Latif Mercado
#51. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
Randy Thornhorn
#52. We are all an instrument with a special notation to our individual identity. When you incorporate many beautiful notes together, you envelop a harmonious orchestra.
Steven Cuoco
#54. She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.
Ellen Gilchrist
#55. Even when it is the most challenging, you will never know how far you will go unless you do It your way.
Steven Cuoco
#56. I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors.
Frederick Lenz
#57. In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.
John Green
#58. Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants ... or (again) parties.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#59. Seriously, when you see a new book fresh on the stand and in big letters it says "A Million Copies Sold," did you ever wonder who bought them?
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#60. What a signal convenience is fame. Do we read all authors to grope our way to the best? No, but the world selects for us the best, and we select from these our best.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#61. Your parents are weirdos, in the best possible way. They do not celebrate birthdays; never in your life have you received a present on the tenth of December. Instead, you are given books on the days that their authors were born.
Robin Sloan
#62. Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.
Michael Dirda
#63. I see who I am, and I am beyond who I was.
Steven Cuoco
#64. Children read books, not reviews," he wrote. "They don't give a hoot about the critics." And: "When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority." Best of all - and to the relief of authors everywhere - children "don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity.
Steven D. Levitt
#65. That the reading of good books, is like the conversation with the honestest persons of the past age, who were the Authors of them, and even a studyed conversation, wherein they discover to us the best only of their thoughts. That eloquence hath forces & beauties which are incomparable.
Rene Descartes
#66. If you wait for God to descend to earth and save you
from your fuck ups, you will be waiting until you
drop dead.
Sheeja Jose
#67. A single lie is the father of all lies
Sheeja Jose
#68. Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
#69. The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.
Thomas Sowell
#70. Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!
Stephen Colbert
#71. In order to be creative rules cannot exist. The creative mind deserves no less.
Steven Cuoco
#72. One of the best things about my job is that I get to meet a lot of great children's and YA authors at events all over the country. So I figured it might be fun to interview some of them and turn the interviews into short online comics.
Steve Sheinkin
