Author Quotes
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Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
Seneca the Younger
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
Cesare Pavese
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Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in some alarming way. It's hard to say which is more painful for the author. Less serious, but quite irritating is to hear the word 'Well' inserted at the beginning of speeches.
Alistair Beaton
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The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.
Simon Toyne
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A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.
Beryl Markham
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That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
Charles Caleb Colton
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I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca the Younger
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I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.
Eve Bunting
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Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.
William P. Young
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A photo app is a utility. It's like comparing 'Twitter' to Microsoft Word. If you want to be an author, you're not always going to constrain yourself to 140 characters.
Kevin Systrom
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It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer."
Soren Kierkegaard
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There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
Bill Gates
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I'm the author of several books, including children's books.
Eric Metaxas
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Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
Albert Camus
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Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.
Elena Ferrante
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As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
Melissa de la Cruz
