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One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print (Author Quotes)
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author (Author Quotes)
The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new (Author Quotes)
Like most of us, I’m used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit ‘multiple-personality’ (Author Quotes)
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras (Author Quotes)
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission (Author Quotes)
Because I’m the author of my screenplays I know what I’m looking for. It’s true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it’s also a question of working with patience and love (Author Quotes)
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author (Author Quotes)
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure (Author Quotes)
If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research (Author Quotes)
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet (Author Quotes)
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue (Author Quotes)
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought (Author Quotes)
Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third (Author Quotes)
A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage (Author Quotes)
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it (Author Quotes)
Don’t patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he’s stabbing the independent bookstores in the back (Author Quotes)
An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary (Author Quotes)
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future (Author Quotes)
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader (Author Quotes)
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words (Author Quotes)
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it’s much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist (Author Quotes)
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? (Author Quotes)
I think it’s always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod’s distance from the actual moviemaking (Author Quotes)
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds (Author Quotes)
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place (Author Quotes)
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience (Author Quotes)
Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice (Author Quotes)
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done (Author Quotes)
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book (Author Quotes)