Books About Authors Quotes

#1. You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.

Robin Sacredfire

#2. I thought it was a novel."
"It is."
"What's it about??"
"You'll have to buy it to find out, but it's got everything: love, death and an amusing dog."
"This one's got a recipe for apple crumble," I said.
"Don't you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?" he said.

Marcel Theroux

#3. As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their books timely and relevant.

Heather Brooke

#4. I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

Patrick DeWitt

#5. I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.

Jane Birkin

#6. Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:

Geraldine Solon

#7. One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

Alain De Botton

#8. As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#9. I've been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first began trying to write stories. Many of the authors whose work I cherish the most were people I first learned about through The O. Henry Prize Stories - and then I'd go search for their books.

Molly Antopol

#10. I think a lot of awesome stuff is coming out with smaller presses. Small presses don't have to have huge board meetings to talk about how to market their books or what to publish - they can take more chances. They can help new authors grow in a healthier, often more artistic way.

Kevin Sampsell

#11. Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

Ellen J. Barrier

#12. There are certain authors out there whose books I'll read no matter what they're about. More often than not I don't even need to read the blurb to know that I'll love it. It's that kind of confidence in my work that I hope to earn from my readers someday.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#13. The minister said, "Music in stone," and truly this phrase, bandied about by authors of art books, described Prague well. The city was, indeed, steeped in music and brought into harmony by it.

Jiri Weil

#14. The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

Ashly Lorenzana

#15. Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.

Gary Shteyngart

#16. Pretend you're not spending $3 to read one of my books but buying me a coffee and having a conversation about yourself.

Robin Sacredfire

#17. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

#18. Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.

Ruth Glick

#19. Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.

Augusta Scattergood

#20. I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure in the books and authors I write about, though sometimes I do need to cavil and point out shortcomings.

Michael Dirda

#21. 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

#22. I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.

Sarah Vowell

#23. Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. Do you know who are the killers?? No?? Yes??... I don't know about you, but I know that the authors of the books are the real killers!

Deyth Banger

#25. Of Books and Scribes there are no end:
This Plague--and who can doubt it?
Dismays me so, I've sadly penned
Another book about it.

Robert W. Service

#26. The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. 'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'

Paul Weller

#28. Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.

Ellen Hopkins

#29. Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented author who crafted each word, the fascinating individuals we meet inside the pages- and the readers we discuss and share the book with when we finish.

Donalyn Miller

#30. Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don't worry about it.

Neil Gaiman