Author Quotes

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use of the Book of Chronicles has to tell about the tabernacle.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.

Call me the author.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

I knew that Steve Harvey had a good, solid message to share, and I wanted to use my knowledge and skills as a relationship author to help him bring his message to those who were willing to receive it.

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.