Authors Quotes

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.

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.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

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.

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 should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

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.

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.

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

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.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.