Author Quotes

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

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.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.