Author Quotes

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the "writing style" of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.