Top 100 Quotes About Authors

#1. We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#2. Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

John Farrar

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#3. We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.

Teresa Mummert

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#4. Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.

Scarlett Thomas

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#5. everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the way you want it to.

but i have hope
because i do not know everything.

AVA.

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#6. If you chase the market, it's not going to come to you. You have to have faith in yourself. I think one of the differences in what I call 'civilians' and 'authors' is that we have an antenna hat buzzing all the time.

David Morrell

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#7. We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now ... won't make no difference, will it? Everybody gonna be so mixed up by then that far in the future that they all gonna be the same color by then, ain't they?

Larry Brown

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#8. We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

Giacomo Casanova

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#9. 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

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#10. Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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#11. The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.

Mary Papas

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#12. It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.

Ashwin Sanghi

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#13. One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries.

Gail Godwin

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#14. Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me

to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song.

Sanober Khan

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#15. The spouses of authors ought to really read their better halves books. What is found amidst those pages may enlighten them to knowing a side of their partner that can only be seen on the written page.

Sai Marie Johnson

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#16. I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.

Jabari Asim

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#17. But authors before they write should read.

Fanny Burney

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#18. Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.

Fennel Hudson

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#19. We found that people, when engaged in a mental sprint, may become effectively blind. The authors of The Invisible Gorilla had made the gorilla "invisible" by keeping the observers intensely busy counting passes.

Daniel Kahneman

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#20. Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#21. The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.

Andrew Pettegree

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#22. In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

Jorge Luis Borges

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#23. Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes

Angelica Hopes

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#24. I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

Rick Moody

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#25. True Devdas are Authors

Santosh Avvannavar

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#26. And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

Vincent Van Gogh

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#27. The number of authors in the Old Testament suggests that it is a community document, almost like a Wikipedia article.

Tripp York

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#28. I find it very disturbing to be advertised, as I have noticed that it is the advertised authors that stink. I am pretty sure I am going to stink from now on, and it might just as well be in Harpers as anywhere else, I suppose. A writer is like a beanplant-he has his day and then he gets stringy.

E.B. White

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#29. There's something more surprising than becoming a bestseller, and that's receiving messages of hate by other fellow authors.

Daniel Marques

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#30. If these walls could talk, the buildings would stutter, wouldn't remember their names.

NoViolet Bulawayo

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#31. Dear Homeschool Mom, You've got this! God called you to it, and He will see you through it. Inhale Grace. Exhale Doubt.

Tamara L. Chilver

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#32. Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist.

Carl Henegan

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#33. Authors do not own books, readers do

John Green

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#34. 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

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#35. The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

Alexis De Tocqueville

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#36. Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.

Ben H. Winters

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#37. Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

Noel Coward

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#38. Humans by nature are promiscuous.
Loyalty is an aberration!

Sanjai Velayudhan

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#39. It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

Seeley James

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#40. Of the authors' imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt

Desiree Holt

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#41. Even when it is the most challenging, you will never know how far you will go unless you do It your way.

Steven Cuoco

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#42. Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.

Alison Tyler

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#43. Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.

M.J. Rose

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#44. A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

Tom Glazer

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#45. His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.

Elizabeth Spencer

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#46. The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

Mona Caird

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#47. Every true novelist listens for that suprapersonal wisdom, which explains why great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. Novelists who are more intelligent than their books should go into another line of work.

Milan Kundera

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#48. Mrs. Astor had long held that artists of any ilk - painters, authors, actors and the like - merit no recognition unless safely dead, and that meeting them risks both needless mental fatigue and the possibility of social contamination.

Paula Cohen

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#49. Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in.

Uma Nnenna

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#50. A pen name is a nickname.

A.D. Posey

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#51. Even among the Amish, other Amish seem odd.

Ira Wagler

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#52. [Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

Terry Pratchett

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#53. I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.

E. Nesbit

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#54. There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, 'You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.'

David Lee Roth

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#55. 10% of authors earn 75% of the royalties. If you're writing a Romance novel, your odds will be slightly higher at making back your investment. Throw in a few vampires, even better.

J.R. Young

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

Neil Gaiman

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#57. There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

Samuel Johnson

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#58. She really needed to stop reading romantic suspense because now horror stories from authors like Shiloh Walker were on her mind and a little too vivid for what she needed at the moment.

Carrie Ann Ryan

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#59. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

Alexander Pope

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#60. A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account.

Sanober Khan

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#61. The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a day's routine to them.

Thornton Wilder

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#62. I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.

Mikhail Sholokhov

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#63. Most people don't read books, but when they do, mine are the first, and that's enough for me.

Daniel Marques

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#64. Readers and authors are both trapped and empowered by the logos

Mark O. Keen

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#65. I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

Mallory Ortberg

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#66. I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

Charlie Kaufman

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#67. The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

Leland Ryken

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#68. There was also a daughter, very short, very plump, very gay, an amazing production for the Gregorievitches. It was as if two very serious authors had set out to collaborate and then had published a limerick.

Rebecca West

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#69. I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet.

Siegfried Woldhek

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#70. Tweets about the mundane aspects of your life contain something that is vitally important to gaining followers and taking part in discussions: Authenticity.

Ian Lamont

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#71. Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.

Lee Child

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#72. There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

Henry David Thoreau

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#73. I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#74. 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

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#75. Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible.

C.S. Lewis

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#76. Our superhero foreign policy draws rivers of taxpayer dollars toward the center, empowering Washington at the expense of local governments. It also empowers the president at the expense of Congress in ways that upset the balance that the authors of the Constitution took great pains to design.

Ian Bremmer

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#77. Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.

Heather Hart

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#78. This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.

Neil Gaiman

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#79. Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Bergen Evans

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#80. My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace.

Nathan Lowell

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#81. Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that's appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.

Christopher Rice

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#82. The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.

Amit Kalantri

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#83. Sometimes I wonder if novel writers aren't completely f**ked in the head. ~ Drew Stirling

Jayden Hunter

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#84. Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

Karin Slaughter

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#85. The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,
simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.

Herman Melville

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#86. Once in a while i am struck
all over again... by just how blue
the sky appears .. on wind-played
autumn mornings, blue enough

to bruise a heart.

Sanober Khan

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#87. The public has an exalted view of authors, and rightly so. Great writers impact deeply on our imagination. And yet, behind the kudos, there sometimes lurks a person at odds with the nobility of the author photo or the 'sheer humanity' of the prose style.

Conrad Williams

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#88. Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

Meagan Spooner

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#89. Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

Benjamin Disraeli

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#90. i would rather have
feelings without words
than words without feelings.

Sanober Khan

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#91. For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I.

Michael A. Arnzen

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#92. Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

Jason Ellis

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#93. Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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#94. He was a glance from God.

Zora Neale Hurston

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#95. A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..

Himmilicious

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#96. The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.

Lewis Nordan

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#97. The two authors she brought with her from that period of reading were Whitman and Thoreau - but then, she had been reading them for years, as some people read the Bible.

Doris Lessing

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#98. An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

George Bernard Shaw

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#99. The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#100. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character.

Janet Fitch

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