Author Quotes
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Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.
Kathryn Harrison
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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.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
Pierre Bayle
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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.
Barry Eisler
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Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Emil Cioran
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But from a deeper perspective (speaking both objectively and subjectively), thoughts simply arise unauthored and yet author our actions.
Sam Harris
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I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids. When I'm working on a book I'm somewhere else - at the circus - or a rustic old farm - or deep in a forest - with no thought of who might read the book or what age group it would appeal to. I write them so I can illustrate them.
Bill Peet
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I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Benjamin Disraeli
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One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as 'The Author.'
Jane Lindskold
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When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.
Laeta Kalogridis
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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.
Arthur Smith
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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.
Liz Tuccillo
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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.
Enrico Caruso
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Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
Blaise Pascal
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I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.
Edith Wharton
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On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author's existence beyond the limits he envisioned, or provides a living author with a future he cannot measure. In other words, this business deals with the future which we all prefer to regard as unending.
Joseph Brodsky
