Author Quotes

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

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.

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

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.