Quotes About Author Interviews

#1. find features, author interviews and news

Winston Graham

#2. This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#3. 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

#4. Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary biography or a memoir of some kind. And doing so almost always deepens my enjoyment of the author and her work.

Brad Listi

#5. This place we're flying over now isn't in the atlas, is it?' the pilot said, grinning. 'You're darn right it isn't in the atlas!' cried the Head of the Air Force. 'We've flown clear off the last page!

Roald Dahl

#6. I've done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I've actually started a list of questions that it would be fun to ask an author, but no respectable interviewer would ever ask. Since I'm not respectable, I'm going to start doing interviews with some authors I know, just for fun.

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

Carol Tavris

#8. If my ex-husband had had his way, I would have quit writing and continued working in his factory.

Nele Neuhaus

#9. How different her mother's world was from hers. How different our mothers' worlds are from all of ours.

Eleanor Brown

#10. I'm a bloodsucking fiend," she said. "I'm not supposed to be reassuring.

Sarah Beth Durst

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

Mylo Carbia

#12. Are you busy proving your worth or living it? A critical distinction

Renae A. Sauter

#13. The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.

Michael Jackson

#14. Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

#15. Let's concentrate on our discussion of things that make us happy, Humble, says the psychologist.

Ned Vizzini

#16. Generally, I think America is America. America has been through suffering like other countries, but America will come up. I have no doubt. It's just going to bounce. You know, you have ups and downs.

Ivana Trump