Top 1200 Great Author Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I think of the author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, 'I will tell you a story' and then he passes the hat.

We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

A photo app is a utility. It's like comparing 'Twitter' to Microsoft Word. If you want to be an author, you're not always going to constrain yourself to 140 characters.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

Gamers co-author the games they play by the choices they make and how they choose to solve problems, since what they do can affect the course and sometimes the outcome of the game.

British cookbook author Elizabeth David led the most adventurous life but is widely credited with bringing to the fore the importance of home cooking.

Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media.

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.

Balancing an illustrator and author can be tricky, but I was an illustrator mostly before I wrote my books.

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

I've learned over the years that big-name writers might be treated fairly by the media conglomerates that dominate publishing today. But the average author isn't.

I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race; and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author.

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never gonna say anything nice about you.

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.

It's wonderful being an author and having so many kids enjoying my books. That's always been my dream job, and I feel very lucky to be able to do it.

Finally, Everybody Hates Chris is on, isn't that right Alice?? Plus, I dont know why they say to put author name for a stinkin' quote.

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

I have the best fans of any author in the country and they deserve the best from me, too!

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.

For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours.

Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!

When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing.

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.

Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.