I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE I'm a commercial writer, not an "author." Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.
GERALDINE SOLON My favorite part was meeting the author. She is one of my favorite authors, and I liked the book, so...
CAROLINE LELAND What an author doesn't know could fill a book.
HOLLY BLACK I'm a mom. I'm a wife. I'm an actress. I'm an executive producer. I'm an author....
TIA MOWRY I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writi...
EDWARD ST AUBYN A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.
SANDRA CHAMI KASSIS That the author is speaking only to us, that he is writing only for us, that no one on Earth has the...
ADAM LANGER It's impossible to author a quote without an author.
ANONYMOUS I'm a strange kind of author - I like assignments. I wasn't clever enough to invent an iconi...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
FELICE PICANO I'm a single parent, a working mother, an executive, and an author. My greatest accomplishment w...
IVANA TRUMP My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
JOHN GREEN An author writes only half the book. The rest is written by readers.
JOSEPH CONRAD Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream
LAQUITA CAMERON I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book...
JAMES PATTERSON When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper ...
JASPER FFORDE That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funer...
TERRY PRATCHETT I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
MICHAEL LEWIS I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of ...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I'm very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book club...
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN An author departs, he does not die
DINAH MARIA MULOCK I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.
EDWARD KOCH As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
NEIL GAIMAN When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish auth...
ANDREW O'HAGAN I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, ...
LAURIE NOTARO I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. ...
TAWNI O'DELL None but an author knows an author's cares,
Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears.
WILLIAM COWPER The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specia...
M. J. ROSE I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I ex...
BILL CLEGG As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you...
BERNHARD SCHLINK I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I lik...
TAWNI O'DELL A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.
GRANT ACHATZ I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
VIN SCULLY I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you...
MAEVE BINCHY I shall be but a shrimp of an author.
THOMAS GRAY But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten...
EDWARD BURNS Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's &...
AVI In my stories, I wrote Malcolm as fire and gold and power, but here in my arms, Colin is cedar, silv...
JACQUELINE E. SMITH When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets...
LORI WILDE As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book...
BERNHARD SCHLINK It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you ...
STEVE MARTIN As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
GAYLE FORMAN There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book....
BRYAN BURROUGH It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless ...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
JAMES A. MICHENER When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the l...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
RAY KURZWEIL I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a m...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather ...
E. L. DOCTOROW You have to be a writer to understand the author
MITTA XININDLU An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a cens...
OCTAVIO PAZ No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they impro...
ROSECRANS BALDWIN The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and...
BETHANY MCLEAN At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
CHICO BUARQUE Choose an author as you choose a friend.
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN Choose an author as you choose a friend.
ARTHUR HELPS When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square....
ROBERTO BOLAƱO My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
JOHN GREEN With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre...
MICHELLE MORAN I have been an author for 22 years and an ass for 55
MARK TWAIN I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.
MARK TWAIN An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
W. E. B. GRIFFIN I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high sc...
MATT DE LA PENA A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN The opinions expressed in this book are not those of the author
ARTHUR C. CLARKE This is not a quote but it is the only way I found to contact you. Please note the following:
You ar...
ISABEL There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
MARQUIS DE SADE Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway...
JANE BIRKIN I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beau...
SOPHIE THOMPSON Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.
NIGEL HAMILTON A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
ELIZABETH GEORGE 'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and wa...
TIMOTHY DALTON Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
VOLTAIRE Systematic online publishing;Is a system where by an author publishes a chapter of his intending boo...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels...
P. J. HARVEY The book that he has made renders its author this service in
return, that so long as the book survi...
RICHARD AUNGERVYLE (AUNGERVILLE) (A/K/A RICHARD DE BURY) I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the ph...
CYNTHIA OZICK I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an...
IAN FRAZIER One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, th...
JANE LINDSKOLD Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can...
COLETTE The Hobbit is based on an earlier, shorter book, written by legendary author J.K. Rowling. This make...
MIKE STOKLASA My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of ...
BRAD THOR A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's...
ALDOUS HUXLEY In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I...
JANE YOLEN I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She write...
SADIE JONES Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.
MARK TWAIN While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an amb...
KAREN HESSE Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author i...
COLETTE He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.
TOVE LO An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That ke...
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