Top 1200 Great Author Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The answer is the Savior who is the source and author of peace.

I became a children's author by accident.

Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.

I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

It takes courage to be the author of your life.

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

I never wanted to be an author or thought I could be.

It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.

Meg Cabot is the best author ever

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in peace, as much as possible, and moves the author towards him.

Although the great frustration about this [role] is the fact that there's one thing Maigret never does, and that's drive. He's always driven, or he takes the train, or he gets the bus. I was saying 'Well, why don't we ring the changes for the 21st Century, and stick him in the car?'. [Executive Producer and son of the author, John Simenon] said, 'Well, you can if you want, but there'll be lots of people who won't like it'. So he's a non-driver ... But no, Top Gear was never a consideration for me; and neither was I asked

Own it. Just take it and say, 'Yes I will be great, I am going to be great.' Great doesn't mean being a movie star, great doesn't mean having millions of dollars. Great means being able to be confident, strong, and a solid human being that has dignity and integrity. That is great.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

No head coach does it by himself. I don't care who the coach is or how great he might be. Mike Krzyzewski is is a great friend of mine and he's a great coach but he has great, great assistant coaches and they bring a lot to the table and that's what it takes.

I am the freest author in the world.

If you liked a book, don't meet the author

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

Choose an author as you would a friend.

Proust is a huge author for me.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

No author ever spar'd a brother.

An author departs; he does not die.

When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

Leaders use story to author the future.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

Every production must resemble its author.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.

Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight into the creative process itself, and into Philip Roth's high calling as a great American artist. The book is, in some ways, a radical rereading of Roth's life and his work. It is impossible, by the end, not to feel a tender admiration for Roth as a novelist and indeed for Claudia Roth Pierpont as an empathetic and brilliant critic.

A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her eyes we see an entire realm of creatures we have never known so intimately before. Truly for people of all ages, Lynne Cox's adventure with the baby whale, Grayson, becomes a parable and an experience, thanks not only to the author's great and generous spirit, but through her immense gift for describing nature.

No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more necessary...The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude towards the great Author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so frequently manifested in our behalf....In war He directed the sword, and in peace, He has ruled in our councils.

The worse the author, the more he is known.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

As an author, I don't really think too much about being a celebrity. It's not like being a movie star or a TV star. It's not as if people recognize me when I walk down the street. That hardly ever happens, and it's just as well. But it is great when people know my books, when I walk through an airport and see them in the bookstore, or when I see someone reading a book on a plane or on a train, and it's something I've written. That's a wonderful feeling.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.

Necessity is the author of change.

An author departs, he does not die.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity.

Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.