Author Quotes
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In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
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In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.
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Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'
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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
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As an author, I love to know my book sells really well.
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My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?'
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I'm going to book-and-author dinners, and I'm the author!
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I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
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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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Every author dreams of the kind of attention that 'Beautiful Children' has received in the press. Obviously, it's a shock whenever it happens. So yeah, I'm as surprised as everybody else.
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The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.
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An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.
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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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There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.
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An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and books are two different mediums and should be dealt differently. What works in a book might not work for a film. When I saw 'Anna Karenina' on screen, I didn't like it at all, whereas 'The Godfather' was legendary.
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That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
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Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life.
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Painting: Once upon a time a painting was a two-dimensional representation; now it is anything its author thinks is appropriate.
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I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.
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The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
