Author Quotes
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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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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
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Films always make everyone else rich save the author.
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To approach the stories in this way is to rob each author of his own integrity as an author and to deprive him of the meaning that he conveys in his story.
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To the distinguished female author’s left was her husband, probably also distinguished in some way, who had the look of many husbands: eyebrows perpetually raised a little in a defensive mask of polite interest, signifying boredom.
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It is because in John’s Gospel we are not hearing two voices—the voice of Jesus and the voice of the narrator. We are hearing one voice. The author is speaking for himself and he is speaking for Jesus. These are not Jesus’s words; they are John’s words placed on Jesus’s lips.
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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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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
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The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
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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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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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Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.
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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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It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.
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I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.
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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 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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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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I hear background noise, but I haven't heard any specific legislation or author.
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A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
