Quotes About Favorite Authors

#1. I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.

Gena Showalter

#2. I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

Louis Sachar

#3. I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to.

Franny Armstrong

#4. One of my favorite authors, Garbrielle Zevin, she did a book called 'Elsewhere,' that is one of my favorites, and I think they're making that into a movie too. I really want to be in that one just because the story is so beautiful.

Isabelle Fuhrman

#5. From childhood on, I found many of my angels in favorite authors, writers who created books that enabled me to understand life with greater complexity. These works opened my heart to compassion, forgiveness, and understanding.

Bell Hooks

#6. The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

Jerry Spinelli

#7. I've always been a huge fan of apologetics. C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors.

Shane Harper

#8. I tell myself it does not matter what one reads
favorite authors, particular themes
as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

Helen Simonson

#9. Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

Salman Rushdie

#10. Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.

Karin Slaughter

#11. One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.

Sara Zarr

#12. We decided we wanted the site to provide readers with fresh new stories to enjoy between major book releases by their favorite authors while allowing those same authors to flex their creative muscles.

Teresa Medeiros

#13. Writing is an art, and true art comes from inspiration, which makes me wonder what kind of fucked-up lives some of my favorite authors have led. Surely

Stevie J. Cole

#14. Most teachers of the humanities lived itinerant lives, traveling from city to city, giving lectures on a few favorite authors, and then restlessly moving on, in the hope of finding new patrons.

Stephen Greenblatt

#15. When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

Phil Daniels

#16. Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

Kami Garcia

#17. One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

Conor Oberst

#18. I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

H.P. Lovecraft

#19. Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.

Madison Smartt Bell

#20. My father was swallowed alive by his own anus. It was a terrible way to go.

Ryan Reynolds

#21. Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious - not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism. *It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!

Daniel Dennett

#22. I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician, it didn't seem like enough for me. I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.

Adria Petty

#23. I used to read a lot. But my focus has gotten worse. My favorites are Russian authors and dark stories where there's no hope.

Robert Pattinson

#24. The jealous man lives in hell. Drop comparing and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures; there is no other way.

Rajneesh

#25. Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Anton Corbijn

#26. Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!

Tony Abbott

#27. Big Ma didn't need to say any more and she didn't. T.J. was far from her favorite person and it was quite obvious that Stacey and I owed our good fortune entirely to T.J.'s obnoxious personality.

Mildred D. Taylor

#28. I'm scared you will realize I'm just bones and questions and leave me for something solid.

Clementine Von Radics

#29. Reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are like crack for authors. Feed your favorite writer's habit today!

Sabine Priestley

#30. Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

Rebecca West

#31. Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#32. It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.

Paulo Coelho

#33. All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)

Larry Brown

#34. Time and again the people still in the camp, realizing they were now trapped, called to God in a hundred different dialects. He laughed and cried at once. He had so many names, yet could not answer to any of them.

Ron Currie Jr.