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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.
I do love the weird, and I realize that I write much in that tradition, so I'm happy to be counted in among some of my favorite authors.
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.
Watching well-meaning authors follow in the footsteps of someone going in the wrong direction breaks my heart.
Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.
Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.
The goal of Bible translation is: be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.
I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.
Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.
Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.
Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.
Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
I know most publishers probably don't let their authors write on Wattpad all the time, but mine are pretty open about it.
The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space.
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.
Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I've always written with someone else.
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors.
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.
Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.
Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.
The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.
I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.
I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.
Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.
Rappers are the white authors of our generation. They know me, my language, my codes, my family, my block.
When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace.
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.
I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.
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.
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
