Author Quotes

• My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Book
  • Perfect
  • Author

• I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

  

  Asa Larsson
  • Great
  • Book
  • Bad

• When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Mind
  • May
  • Style

• I come from a theater background, so I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author was trying to get at. I still look up the meaning of the name of the character to see if there are any clues in that.

  

  Adina Porter
  • Trying
  • Like
  • Scene

• I became a children's author by accident.

  

  Jerry Spinelli
  • Children
  • Author

• When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • People
  • Different
  • Home

• The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Language

• It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • Author

• I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

  

  Matt de la Pena
  • World
  • School
  • High

• A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Experience
  • Heaven
  • Journey

• I have simply taken some of the same questions and reposed them in new ways. But, you see, I must live. Right? I mean I can't stay the same for everyone to be consumed as the author of "Gender trouble". I have to continue to live and that means I have to "reposer les questions".

  

  Judith Butler
  • Trouble
  • Questions
  • Gender

• I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for the author. That was Robert Wilson, something called 'Network,' which consisted of Wilson sitting on a bunk, the dialogue of the movie 'Network' looped in while a chair on a rope went up and down.

  

  August Wilson
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Respect

• There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.

  

  T. R. Pearson
  • Writing
  • Differences
  • Talking

• A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Wonder
  • Fantasy
  • Outrageous

• One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

  

  Andrew Roberts
  • History
  • Author
  • Provoke

• The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

  

  Jerzy Kosinski
  • Relationship
  • Author

• The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Truth
  • Christian's God

• Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

  

  Lauren Oliver
  • Book
  • Author

• But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own? Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Men
  • Real

• Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Author
  • Answers
  • Politician

• In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Opinion
  • Audience
  • Author

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