Author Quotes
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An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
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I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.
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A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
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A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
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I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.
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Yet the greater part of it, I shall show, is nonsense, tricked out with a variety of metaphysical conceits, and its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive himself.
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John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
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As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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I am the freest author in the world.
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Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species with precipitin sera for serum proteins does not succeed so regularly as with agglutinins and lysins for blood cells. This may be due to the fact that in the evolutional scale the proteins undergo continuous variations whereas cell antigens are subject to sudden changes not linked by intermediary stages.
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Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
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Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
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Who learns most from a good book is the author.
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All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.
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What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hindusim, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.
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You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
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No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.
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I think of the French polymath Boris Vian (1920-1959) who burned the candles of his creative genius at every end he could light. And I think of the way Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) hammered with
