Author Quotes
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I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.
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When I sold my first middle-grade novel in 2005, it wasn't that common to put an author photo on the back flap, but 24-year-old Korean-American me insisted. I wanted Asian girls to see my face. And more than that, I wanted them to see what is possible.
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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.
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Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
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When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.
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Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.
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Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
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The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
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Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.
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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
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My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.
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An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.
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Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.
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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.
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What attracted me the most of all to the detective story, was the protective covering offered to the author.
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My #1 job as a thriller author is to give readers the best white-knuckle thrill ride I am capable of. I am first and foremost in the entertainment business. If that suspenseful ride is also terrifying because it hits really close to home, then I am once again doing what I am supposed to do as a thriller author.
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When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.
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In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.
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If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
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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.
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An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.
