Authors Quotes

Well, let me try again,' he said. 'If it be true, and no doubt it is, that the proper study of mankind is man, it is also true that man is best studied in the books that he has written about himself; and all books, whatever their subject matter, are in essence autobiographical... Wherefore, it is clear - or is it? - that writers of books are what I have called them, the most fascinating people in the world.

~ Peter Ruber

If you wait for God to descend to earth and save youfrom your fuck ups, you will be waiting until youdrop dead.

~ Sheeja Jose

Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors.

~ Jonathan Galassi

You learn to run by running.

~ Sheeja Jose

Life is like a dream, when you wake up,you only have memories.

~ Sheeja Jose

The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books.

~ Neil Gaiman

One of the most difficult things when you were trying to navigate the world of books was dealing with all the unreliable authors. They were so unbelievably tricky to keep track of. An author might write a brilliant book, only to follow it up with something utterly mediocre. Or, and this was almost worse, one might have written a brilliant book but then turn out to be dead. Then there were those authors who started a series but never finished it.

~ Katarina Bivald

People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet one.

~ Matthew Pearl

Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.

~ Fennel Hudson

People always try to make self-published authors feel insignificant. I have more respect for self-published authors, because I know the adversity they faced. They didn't just write a manuscript, query letter, and blam book deal. These authors had to do it the difficult way. There is no publisher, or agents, investing time, and money into making their book. Just the indie author's manuscript, own currency, and persistence.

~ Mary Sage Nguyen

I like to read books one after another. Immerse myself in a book, and then immerse myself in the next book, and just keep going until there aren't any more books left to swim in. That's why I hate when authors die. I cannot stand it. There will be no more books forthcoming from that person. Their future books died with them. In the past I have found a series of books and loved it so much that all I wanted to do was read and read and read those books for the rest of my life. Then I would find out that the author was dead. Had in fact been dead for many a year. This has happened to me several times.

~ Alison Mcghee

As an author the question I get asked the most is, “why do you write?” My knee jerk response is, “Because I love it,” which is true, but not the whole truth. So here is my revised response to that question; “I write for the thirteen year old me who hated reading and craved something different than the boring literature I was forced to read for school. I write to see something I want to read exist in the world. I write because it becomes unbearable to hold so many stories in my head without a way to express them, but most importantly, I write to be true to myself.

~ Day Parker

Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.

~ Hilary Mantel

It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more about one of modern America’s truly significant artistic and cultural movements. It helps us to acknowledge the complexity of African American life at a time when the nation’s culture was taking on a recognizable shape, when race was becoming less of a crushing burden and more of a challenge to progressive people and their ideals, and when cities and their inhabitants symbolized the end of the past and the seductiveness of the new.

~ Clement Alexander Price

I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn't the point.

~ Joanna Penn

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Professional writers don't have muses, they have mortgages.

~ Larry Kahaner

Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!

~ David Batterson

There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous .

~ Tushar Upreti

Seriously, when you see a new book fresh on the stand and in big letters it says “A Million Copies Sold,” did you ever wonder who bought them?

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

For every minute that a book entertains you, the author of that book invested several minutes of their lives. Please show your appreciation by taking a minute out of your life to leave us a review. It not only means a lot to us to know you enjoyed our work, it inspires us to write more! Thank you!

~ David Sterlinga. Sterling

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

~ Evelyn Waugh

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

~ Ruth Rendell

I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

~ Virginia Woolf

Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.

~ D.h. Lawrence

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~ Discovered Pages

Love and respect are above any law

~ Uri Jerzy Nachimson

In the timeless and universal manner of authors conversing in public places, he did not fail to mention its title, “Volume III of Principia Mathematica entitled, The System of the World, available shortly, where books are sold.

~ Neal Stephenson

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

~ Noël Coward

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.

~ Robert Frost

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work, it is what I do.

~ Shannon Winslow

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York. (on Tom Wolfe)

~ Norman Mailer

An idiot child screaming in a hospital. (on George Bernard Shaw)

~ H.g. Wells

All raw, uncooked, protesting.(on Aldous Huxley)

~ Virginia Woolf

In Australia the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. I just didn’t expect to end up with the chicken.

~ Richard Flanagan

The only thing in life that's really interesting is the contest. We are all contestants--whether we admit it or not. If I read 20 pages of a book and they're no good, I put it down. Maybe it's good after 100 pages, but I can't wait. The author lost.

~ Lee Marvin

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

~ Zia Haider Rahman