Author Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
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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.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.
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I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.
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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.
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But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.
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Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.
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Who is the coolest author ever? Is it the guy who wrote Fablehaven? If not, what’s the matter with you?
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I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.
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I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.
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Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.
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It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
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I hear background noise, but I haven't heard any specific legislation or author.
