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We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.
The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.
Among non-fiction authors I like Richard Bach, Nichiren Daishonin, Burton Watson, Deepak Chopra and MJ Akbar.
The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'
How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.
Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.
It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect on how I hear language for a while.
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading authors who's work was composed in the languages I happen to have learned.
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.
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline.
I'm especially interested in projects from authors who were always wonderful writers but who got stuck in the midlist mire due to the challenges of traditional publishing.
If you chase the market, it's not going to come to you. You have to have faith in yourself. I think one of the differences in what I call 'civilians' and 'authors' is that we have an antenna hat buzzing all the time.
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.
With Crucible, any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.
With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.
It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.
My writings are limited to depicting analytically, but also polemically, the horrors of reality. Redemption is the speciality of other authors, male and female.
Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.
James Baldwin is probably, for me and for many other people, one of the most extraordinary authors in this country, black or white. And he is somebody who changed my life.
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
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.
There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.
I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
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.
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.
American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.
In non-fiction, I like Wayne Dyer. I have a compilation of his best quotes near my bed! To me he's one of the finest authors.
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.
Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.
...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.
I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.
Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.
Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.
