Authors Quotes

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.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

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.

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

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

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.