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There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot (Author Quotes)
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you’re cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism (Author Quotes)
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do (Author Quotes)
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels (Author Quotes)
The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself (Author Quotes)
The reader, however, is warned not to be too sure that the author of any quotation had in mind the subject to which it is applied here (Author Quotes)
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better (Author Quotes)
To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them (Author Quotes)
If you’re too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn’t the right career for you (Author Quotes)
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 (Author Quotes)
An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself (Author Quotes)
Why should any man have power over any other man’s faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it (Author Quotes)
Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), But that doesn’t all of a sudden make us best selling authors (Author Quotes)
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13 - year - old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th century author! (Author Quotes)
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author (Author Quotes)
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has (Author Quotes)
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure (Author Quotes)
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation (Author Quotes)
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein (Author Quotes)
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies (Author Quotes)
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth (Author Quotes)
I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was (Author Quotes)
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men (Author Quotes)
The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters (Author Quotes)
There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense (Author Quotes)
I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me (Author Quotes)
God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through (Author Quotes)
For an author just starting out, you’ve got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader (Author Quotes)
My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me (Author Quotes)
Also, as an author, character has always been what I’m most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too (Author Quotes)