Famous Author Sayings

#1. A famous author is a promoter who never quit.

Kristin James

#2. The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you will say.

Herman Melville

#3. 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

#4. Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

Voltaire

#5. I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think for two seconds about it and realize, this is, like, a toilet bowl reader.

Augusten Burroughs

#6. No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing.

Mylo Carbia

#7. If I had time, I would become timeless.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#8. Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the ultimate man behind the curtain, sexual athlete and ruthless patriot, is also a Scot, as was the author, whose wish-fulfilment he was?

Linda Colley

#9. If you go through the biography of any famous personality you idolize you are sure to see the how the words 'I can' and 'I believe' played a very vital role in their fame.

Stephen Richards

#10. Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place.

Benny Bellamacina

#11. There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous .

Tushar Upreti

#12. Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Aberjhani

#13. DeYtH Banger is a character, who is famous because of me, who is created by me and who lives by me...

Deyth Banger

#14. Maintain an attitude of anticipating success!

Tae Yun Kim

#15. Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

T.E. Lawrence

#16. Always walk as if you're running late, it's healthier.

Benny Bellamacina

#17. The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.

Lynn Coady

#18. Please welcome Professor Varen Nethers, famous depressed dead poets historian and author of the bestselling books Unlocking your Poe-tential: A Writer's Guide, and Mo Poe Fo Yo: When You Just Can't Get Enough.

Kelly Creagh

#19. No matter how great the book is, Its translator will never be famous as the author!Better Write!

Me

#20. Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.

Adam D'Angelo

#21. 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

#22. The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

Mylo Carbia

#23. My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

Debbie Macomber

#24. The sun doesn't live in England; it comes here on holiday when we're all at work.

Benny Bellamacina

#25. The mark of a successful author isn't whether he/she becomes rich and famous. Success is a story worthy enough to touch, move, or inspire even one reader in a way that is meaningful to them.

Lianne Miller

#26. Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.

Joseph Addison

#27. If you can make it down to the pub, the pub will make it up to you.

Benny Bellamacina

#28. A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Aberjhani

#29. My famous quote comes from my Storybook for Children Titled "Where's the Soda Tub"? Author Migdalia Torres

We are Bears, We are not suppose to be afraid of the Dark and Dangerous Woods

Migdalia Torres

#30. What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute.

Aberjhani