How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. Votes: 3
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelA successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur"or APE. Votes: 3
Guy KawasakiEverything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author. Votes: 3
William WordsworthDear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper. Votes: 3
Victoria LaurieEternity Shines through Time in the Presence of True Soul Mates!-Author Serena Jade Votes: 3
Serena JadeRemember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam Votes: 3
Stephanie SkeemCertainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. Votes: 3
Arthur MillerWhen you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten Votes: 3
Ian C. EsslemontThe first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance. Votes: 3
Leslie LudyA loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible. Votes: 3
Henry Clay TrumbullThere is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. -- Author unknown Votes: 2
Shelley K. WallIt is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him Votes: 0
Vauvenargues, Marquis deMy biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author. Votes: 0
Kareem Abdul-JabbarEvery author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher. Votes: 0
Gisela RichterIn her whimsical debut author Brynne Barnes celebrates the colors of our world. Votes: 0
E. B. LewisIllustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination. Votes: 0
Tony DiTerlizziNo author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovTradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacScience sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare. Votes: 0
Augustus William HareBehind every successful woman(author) is a non-demanding husband content with a fruit-bowl. Votes: 0
Andy PaulaI love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHe who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorThere is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny. Votes: 0
Ravi ZachariasSnooki is now a published author. I'm blaming Sarah Palin. She lowered the bar. Votes: 0
David LettermanI really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author. Votes: 0
Peter GreenawayThe best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read. Votes: 0
Jorge AmadoI'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career. Votes: 0
Marianne WilliamsonNobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout. Votes: 0
Salman RushdieWhen you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think Votes: 0
Tom SchulmanThe book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonAdapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead. Votes: 0
James FrancoWhen you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship. Votes: 0
Sam Taylor-JohnsonThe author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal. Votes: 0
Helen McCloyHegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author. Votes: 0
Allen W. WoodIt's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect. Votes: 0
Paul KingsnorthA book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response. Votes: 0
William GibsonIf you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWe write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author Votes: 0
Frances Ridley Havergalmake only your trust in God; His author must surely finish his work. Hold on! Votes: 0
oladosu feyikogbonHe was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential. Votes: 0
Stanley WalkerJesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith. Votes: 0
Timothy KellerAn author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. Votes: 0
Gaston LerouxAs a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. Votes: 0
Andrea Davis PinkneyThe sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief. Votes: 0
DemosthenesFirstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author. Votes: 0
Josiah BartlettA chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. Votes: 0
Hosea BallouEvery thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. Votes: 0
Luc de ClapiersAbuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonCould he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace? Votes: 0
William CowperThe prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author. Votes: 0
Scott TurowHad I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier. Votes: 0
Chico BuarqueIf you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. Votes: 0
Wilson MiznerI see the beauty of books and sacred-souls of every author displaced in a bookshop. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaPoets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill. Votes: 0
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of OrreryA cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing. Votes: 0
Grant Achatz... an author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty. Votes: 0
Evariste GaloisSometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author. Votes: 0
Catherine Ryan HydeAn author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. Votes: 0
Mark TwainBooks are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe. Votes: 0
Glen CookMan is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonAs a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more. Votes: 0
David MaranissI'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read. Votes: 0
Suze OrmanEvery other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonThe 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth. Votes: 0
Jennifer SeniorMost papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew. Votes: 0
Peter LandinAll Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson. Votes: 0
Andy BorowitzWhat I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. Votes: 0
Logan Pearsall SmithThere are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it. Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachWe often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonThe only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation. Votes: 0
Washington IrvingYour life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success. Votes: 0
Ifeanyi Enoch OnuohaI draw the art for the writers. A lil' chibi of each author crowns their articles. Votes: 0
Holly GolightlyWhat SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one. Votes: 0
Edward M. LernerGod [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion. Votes: 0
Robert BoyleI think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off. Votes: 0
Morris GleitzmanMusical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor. Votes: 0
Iggy PopWe had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author. Votes: 0
James BoswellMany an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows. Votes: 0
Nancy HaleWhere Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author. Votes: 0
Sonia RumziPoets can tell the truth as they see it. It's the author's story, the author's voice. Votes: 0
Nikki GiovanniI'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky. Votes: 0
Felice PicanoA Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir. Votes: 0
Tony BlankleyAt dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one. Votes: 0
George S. KaufmanIt is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyStyle has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self. Votes: 0
Whit BurnettI find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work. Votes: 0
Nicola CornickAn author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Votes: 0
Roy Blount, Jr.Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking. Votes: 0
Junot DiazI'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. Votes: 0
Mickey SpillaneI believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov. Votes: 0
Steve EricksonIf the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published. Votes: 0
Archibald MacLeishAn author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals. Votes: 0
Steve K. SmyObjectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel. Votes: 0
Andrei TarkovskySmile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist. Votes: 0
Nhat HanhAs a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic. Votes: 0
Phil CollinsWilliam Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written. Votes: 0
Kim EdwardsThe language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. Votes: 0
John M. FordOne way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print. Votes: 0
William GoldmanI worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made. Votes: 0
Lauren OliverIt is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author. Votes: 0
Ventseslav KonstantinovI think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovOne kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? Votes: 0
Alain de BottonAny author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do. Votes: 0
Alexander McCall SmithA perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeThere is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. Votes: 0
Marquis de SadeNovels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. Votes: 0
Jonathan DeeThere is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author." Votes: 0
Marquis de SadeLiving frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career. Votes: 0
Hugh HoweyEvery author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFor me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart. Votes: 0
Amanda HockingIt's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?! Votes: 0
Martha Sweeneythe labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. Votes: 0
Agnes RepplierAn author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. Votes: 0
Amos Bronson AlcottPeople must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawALL of Mark Twain's! Just go to his quote page - https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot..." Votes: 0
Mark TwainAdaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse. Votes: 0
Marjane SatrapiI'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them. Votes: 0
Barton GellmanThe only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. Votes: 0
Samuel ButlerWhen a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. Votes: 0
PlatoWe are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking. Votes: 0
Helen PrejeanI am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. Votes: 0
Harriet MartineauReaders always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books. Votes: 0
Donald A. NormanThe two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. Votes: 0
William Makepeace ThackerayGood ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. Votes: 0
Jeanne Gangskulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author. Votes: 0
Derek LandyThe Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor. Votes: 0
Paul ScofieldThe author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertLet not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonMy job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across. Votes: 0
Kevin SpaceyWhen you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. Votes: 0
Sherman AlexieThe author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done. Votes: 0
Louis LeakeyI believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written. Votes: 0
Dean Wesley SmithI believe in God, I just give him more credit than being a single parent and an author. Votes: 0
Bill MaherIt's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one. Votes: 0
Isaac MarionI never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamThe author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyAdam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it. Votes: 0
Mark TwainYou know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. Votes: 0
Jeff BezosWriting is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift. Votes: 0
Michael J. KannengieserBook tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book. Votes: 0
Michael LewisThere are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director. Votes: 0
Sergio LeoneWhen a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun. Votes: 0
Arthur PhillipsSurely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfA writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person. Votes: 0
Sandra Chami KassisBlogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following. Votes: 0
Adam D'AngeloA critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less. Votes: 0
Henry Edward ManningI don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. Votes: 0
Kevin J. AndersonI have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport. Votes: 0
Jonathan WeeksI really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life. Votes: 0
Anne Michaelsfor the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author ... Votes: 0
Sylvia Townsend WarnerIt seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. Votes: 0
Raymond QueneauThere can be no revival apart from the Holy Ghost; He is the author of every Heaven-sent movement. Votes: 0
James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. Votes: 0
Andreï MakineEnvy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. Votes: 0
John GayAn author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness. Votes: 0
Cyril ConnollyA man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. Votes: 0
Marcel ProustI was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay! Votes: 0
Simone ElkelesIf your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? Votes: 0
Amy PurdyAn author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. Votes: 0
Anthony TrollopeThe author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamThe author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. Votes: 0
Umberto EcoThe act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultFill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him. Votes: 0
Frank Moore ColbyI am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and canât erase my mistakes. Votes: 0
Bill KaulitzIf I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel. Votes: 0
Chris d'LaceyIf you fail to become the author of your life, the society wouldn't hesitate to write it for you. Votes: 0
Edmond MbiakaThis is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. Votes: 0
Brandon SandersonAn author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. Votes: 0
Tony HillermanGod is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness. Votes: 0
George MullerPeople may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonAlmost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. Votes: 0
A. A. MilneWhy should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it? Votes: 0
George FoxThe lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawWe have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleMaking a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereIf I become the most popular author in jump, please give me the right to end one manga I hate. Votes: 0
Tsugumi OhbaIf you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone? Votes: 0
E.A. BucchianeriEvery author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks. Votes: 0
Nolan BushnellAs much as we don't want to hear it, book marketing is a huge part of becoming a successful author. Votes: 0
Heather HartAs an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own! Votes: 0
Melissa de la CruzI used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. Votes: 0
Tara Bray SmithAn author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them. Votes: 0
Leigh HuntWhen a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again. Votes: 0
William StaffordA good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author. Votes: 0
John KeatsLet me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats. Votes: 0
Ze FrankOne of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly. Votes: 3 Conor Oberst
Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character. Votes: 3 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. Votes: 1 Jean de la Bruyere
This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play. Votes: 3 John Jeremiah Sullivan
Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes. Votes: 2 Therese Fowler
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. Votes: 1 Tom Glazer
Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character. Votes: 3 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone. Votes: 1 John Turturro
My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?' Votes: 3 Brad Thor
Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all across America. Not because my novels for young readers are bestsellers - they're not by a long shot - but because today's kids love to write to authors. Votes: 1 Rodman Philbrick
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. Votes: 3 Peter Agre
I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars. Votes: 3 Claire Scovell LaZebnik
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy. Votes: 3 Jason Epstein
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. Votes: 4 Logan Pearsall Smith
There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature. Votes: 4 Eliza Haywood
Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers. Votes: 2 Laurence Housman
Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers. Votes: 2 Laurence Housman
People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life. Votes: 1 Azar Nafisi
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life. Votes: 3 Bruce Beresford
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. Votes: 2 Jeff Bezos
Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer. Votes: 3 Mal Peet
All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading. Votes: 1 Kate Mosse
I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author. Votes: 1 Jennifer Gilmore