Author Quotes
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
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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.
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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
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For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.
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Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.
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There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.
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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.
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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.
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My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.
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In the world of book writing, an author really gets to have control over what he or she writes, which is why it is very satisfying. With the help of a great compatible editor, you really have something in the end you can call your own.
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My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.
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Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
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Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
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There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.
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Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
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An author departs, he does not die.
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Every time I enter a country and have to write down my occupation at customs, I'm like, 'I don't know... Author? Host? Writer? Stand-up?' I usually write 'author' - that's the safest bet.
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As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.
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I was never a member of For Ourselves, the San Francisco Bay Area pro-situationist group which wrote and self-published The Right to Be Greedy in 1974. The principal author was Bruce Gardner, who has long since dropped out of sight.
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The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.
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I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.
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Most striking feature... is the author’s failure to understand the elementary mechanics of the competitive economic organization.
