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No sensible author wants anything but praise.


A. A. Milne
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Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.


Joseph Smith, Jr.
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
Isabel Allende
Tags: Life Some First
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The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.


Isobelle Carmody
Tags: Best Some Books
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One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.


Henning Mankell
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.


Friedrich Nietzsche
Tags: Best Who Will
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.


Andre Maurois
Tags: Great Really Life
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If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.


Wilson Mizner
Tags: You Many Research
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I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?


Mordicai Gerstein
Tags: Still Write Next
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Tags: Good Never Bad
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I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from Σ34,000 a year to Σ16,000.


Tony Bradman
Tags: Know Been Year
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It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.


Raymond Queneau
Tags: Me Who Very
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For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.


Amanda Hocking
Tags: People Me Need
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When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.


Arthur Phillips
Tags: Just Some Same
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.


A. A. Milne
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.


Nolan Bushnell
Tags: Will Then First
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You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.


Paul Cleave
Tags: You Your Make
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tags: Good Truth About
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Isaac D'Israeli
Tags: Which Much Most
My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.
Amy Tan
Tags: Time Always Want
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Tags: You About His
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
John Updike
Tags: Day Two American
I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
Sam Weller
Tags: Great He First
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tags: Own His Ever
The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish,' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.
Jennifer Armintrout
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.
Laurence Housman
Tags: Who Life Thing
As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.
Bernhard Schlink
Tags: Hope You Movie
Dahl was my favorite author as a child. When I got older, I discovered his adult stories and fell even more in love with him.
Georgina Bloomberg
Tags: More Love Even
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
Edward Albee
Tags: You People Know
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
D. H. Lawrence
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
Julian Barnes
Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.
Harsha Bhogle
Tags: Like He Every
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.
Cass Canfield
Tags: Always He Any
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Thornton Wilder
Tags: Future Who Will
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.
Tom T. Hall
Tags: Just Out Up
Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
God keeps me grounded as well as my husband, Keith Douglas, who is such an inspiration to me. He's an author, speaker, and businessman. He's just a great husband and blessing.
Tasha Smith
Tags: Great God Me
I am State Senator Russell Pearce, the author of SB1070, which was signed by Governor Jan Brewer. Fear mongering and misinformation is the tool of the Left against this common sense legislation.
Russell Pearce
Tags: Fear Which Am
I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.
Enrique Pena Nieto
Tags: Will Through May
At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.
Jose Saramago
Tags: Had World Some
Whether you work with a small or corporate press, the important thing is to have realistic expectations in terms of sales, promotion, and the work you have to do as an author promoting your novel.
Joe Meno
Tags: Work You Your
The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.
Robert Fortune
Tags: Who Been Which
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
Julien Green
Tags: Like Who Always
A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you're lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride.
Nick Harkaway
Tags: You Lot Hard
No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I happen to think the author is the last person you'd want to talk to about a book. They hate it by that point; they've already moved on to a new lover. Besides, the author never knows what the book is about anyway.
Rosecrans Baldwin
Tags: Good You About
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Tags: Time Just He
It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be that the author - me - is trying in some way to push my views onto my readers.
Ruth Ozeki
Tags: You Me Your
I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text.
Richard Curtis
Tags: Time Over Made
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
Paul Auster
Tags: Good You About