Authors Quotes

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

I write to believe in goodness.

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.

There are four seasons in a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Colour!

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

Twitter is a vessel that we can use to share #positivity to others through our timeline one tweet at a time.

Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

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

It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.

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

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

In my mind's eye

Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person.

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Love me...with all the abandonof a sudden wild rain.

If you ever expect to write fairytales, you've got to get your head in the clouds.

If there weren’t so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.

David had left her, taking his insane jealousy with him.

May the nights always be aglowwith the bliss of the daywith unharmed hands and feetand kissed cheeks.

i can’t always tell what’s betterlong drivesin the star-spangled desertsor long walksalong winding tea gardens.

I live there...Far above the song-filled clouds, where the dewdrops touch my skin so bareI live there.