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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.
It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.
The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books.
I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.
I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story.
Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love.
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.
I love reading. I've had the chance to meet some of my favorite authors, that's been really cool.
One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
I'm hot on the Jewish book club circuit. How many black authors do you know who can say that?
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.
Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.
Most authors would love to see their characters made for the screen, especially one that's quite colourful.
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book.
We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.
I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.
A misconception that exists in the eyes of the general reading population is that authors make truckloads of money.
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.
A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.
It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.
Nalini Singh, J.D. Robb, Patricia Briggs, Shelby Reed - these are my pre-order, must-have authors.
I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
Sometimes I look around cable news and it's like you wonder whether you're looking at anchors or authors.
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.
I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.
I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.
Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.
Readers are always surprised to learn that authors have little or no input regarding the cover art for their books.
One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.
Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.
I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.
Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.
Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists
Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you'll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors. Don't do that.
