A Quote by Roberto Calasso

The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.

Roberto Calasso

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Roberto Calasso
Italian - Writer
Born: May 30, 1941

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

George Bernard Shaw

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.

Molly Antopol

I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing.

Peter Sis

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'?

Terry Pratchett

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

Jami Attenberg

If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done.

Andre Dubus III

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

Mickey Spillane

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

Nikki Giovanni

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

Edward Abbey

When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.

Luigi Pirandello

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

Robert Munsch

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's very hard to get one publisher to accept an author going over to the other author's company to collaborate.

Marcia Muller

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

Albert Camus

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.

Stella Adler

Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the lives of his or her characters.

Robert J. Sawyer

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