Top 1200 Good Authors Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Like most authors, I also love to read.

There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

We need to be the authors of our own life.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

In a very real sense, we are the authors of our own lives.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers).

The YA category changes pretty fast. I'm so impressed by what these authors do.

The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about nuns and birdwatchers and cats who solve crimes. Overseas, my books are reviewed alongside those of authors like Robert Stone and Don DeLillo, and I have to live and die by that comparison. They don't ghettoize crime writers in other countries, and of course they shouldn't.

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

But authors before they write should read.

I like working with authors who are a bit pesky.

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

I want people to be the authors of their own life story.

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

I've always liked authors such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.

There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

Despite the natural belittling of one's self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all write our own autobiography, we are the authors of our life story. Realising that, write a good story with your life and make sure to write yourself as the protagonist. Be the hero of your journey.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

Authors in general don’t have a lot of money, and lawsuits are expensive.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.