French Author Quotes

#1. To quote French author Francois Mauriac, 'Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

Sarah Wendell

#2. Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work.

Tom Rath

#3. Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?

Drew Carey

#4. the french ambassador to spain, meeting cervantes,congratulated him on the great success and reputation gained by his "don quixote"; whereupon the author whispered in his ear: "had it not been for the inquisition, i should have made my book much more entertaining.

Isaac D'Israeli

#5. Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!'
'I don't know, a bowl?'
'Non ... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!

Louise Rennison

#6. What kind of person do you wish to be? A part of those who take action, who try the hardest, or of those who go with the flow?

S.N. Lemoing

#7. I beg your pardon. Sometimes, it's true I can be stubborn.'
'Sometimes?' she added derisively.
'Quite often,' he tempered.

S.N. Lemoing

#8. Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Jamie L. Harding

#9. The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous, and our need to understand our experiences on a subconscious level.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#10. I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess.

J.K. Rowling

#11. The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

Tana French

#12. I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new book than any other author.

Sophie Hannah

#13. St. Clair: So did you enjoy the book?
Anna: I did. Did you?
St. Clair: I like the author's name the best. Ba-nah-na.

Stephanie Perkins

#14. Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.

Aliyyah Eniath

#15. You have to hold on and be patient. Pain lasts for a while, but you must leave room for happiness when you find it.

S.N. Lemoing

#16. I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

Andrea Bocelli

#17. The landing stage stood on its high crooked stilts with only one person watching the boat disappear round the bend of the river - a girl of twelve called Ada, the wet-nurse's eldest child. As

Jane Gardam

#18. When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

#19. If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.

Tana French

#20. Jefferson, incidentally, was also a great adventurer with foods. Among his many other accomplishments, he was the first person in America to slice potatoes lengthwise and fry them. So as well as being the author of the Declaration of Independence, he was also the father of the American French fry.

Bill Bryson