Authors Quotes

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

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.