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Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember. -- Eve Arden
Six Characters in Search of an Author. -- Luigi Pirandello
Author is the prisoner of his thoughts . -- Rajiv Bakshi
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Author Brene Brown - her books inspire me to "dare greatly". -- Megan Alexander
Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature ... -- Pope Leo XIII
Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness. -- Joseph Wheelan
The only thing more powerful than words- is the Author who chooses them. -- K.A. Gunn
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur"?or APE. -- Guy Kawasaki
Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author. -- William Wordsworth
Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present. -- George F. Will
Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper. -- Victoria Laurie
Eternity Shines through Time in the Presence of True Soul Mates!-Author Serena Jade -- Serena Jade
There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth. -- Karl G. Maeser
Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam -- Stephanie Skeem
The ashes of the past drift away on the winds of the future. ~ Ryan Mark, Author -- Ryan Mark
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. -- Roland Barthes
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. -- Arthur Miller
When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten -- Ian C. Esslemont
Soul Mates psychically sense their Exalted Bond through the sweet whispers of their Soul.-Author Serena Jade -- Serena Jade
Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam -- Stephanie Skeem
The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty. -- Leslie Ludy
The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better. -- Charles Spurgeon
The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance. -- Leslie Ludy
Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins -- Nancy S. Mure
Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins -- Nancy S. Mure
A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible. -- Henry Clay Trumbull
Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known. -- T. E. Lawrence
Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our blessed religion we can never hope to be a happy nation. -- George Washington
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. -- Author unknown -- Shelley K. Wall
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. -- Oscar Wilde
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. -- Charles de Montesquieu
People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election. -- Tatyana Tolstaya
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
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. -- Stephen Sondheim
The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art. -- Wale
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage. -- Harold Bloom
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books. -- Neil Gaiman
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
Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is. -- Sarah Zettel
I can tell you from experience that God's help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value. -- Joyce Meyer
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. -- John Locke
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. -- Ross Perot
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' -- James Wolcott
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. -- Sarah Bernhardt
According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Ten years ago, you wrote a book and you never expected to find out anything about the author. Now with social media, everyone wants that connection. I think our readers want to be invited into our lives and brought on the journey and be part of this whole process. -- Jane Green
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service. -- Jim Webb
I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone. -- Regina Brett
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself. -- Ray Comfort
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. -- James Rollins
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. -- Abraham Lincoln
The author's tribute is heartfelt... -- Monty Roberts
The book belongs to the author. -- Maxwell Perkins
Necessity is the author of change. -- Tim Hansel
Every production must resemble its author. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Time is the author of authors. -- Francis Bacon
No author ever spar'd a brother. -- John Gay
Meg Cabot is the best author ever -- Meg Cabot
I became a children's author by accident. -- Jerry Spinelli
No sensible author wants anything but praise. -- A. A. Milne
An author departs; he does not die. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
One hates an author that's all author. -- Lord Byron
Leaders use story to author the future. -- Robert McKee
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head. -- Seneca the Younger
I am the best author of my life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces. -- Paul Halmos
Choose an author as you choose a friend. -- Christopher Wren
Choose an author as you choose a friend. -- Christopher Wren
Edit your author as you would be edited. -- Barbara Sjoholm
Choose an author as you would a friend. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. -- Voltaire
I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. -- Ray Kurzweil
I am the freest author in the world. -- J. K. Rowling
The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary. -- John Updike
As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream. -- Neil Gaiman
The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. -- Edward Abbey
Every author has to eventually write a food book. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I'm not an actual author but an accidental one. -- William P. Young
I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author. -- Isaac Pitman
The author enters into his own death, writing begins. -- Roland Barthes
The worse the author, the more he is known. -- James Purdy
Every man is the author of his own life. -- Paul Auster
What an author doesn't know could fill a book. -- Holly Black
It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I shall be but a shrimp of an author. -- Thomas Gray
Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from. -- Nelson DeMille
Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
I think of myself as a very lazy author. -- Neil Gaiman
If you liked a book, don't meet the author -- Raymond Chandler
Authenticity means to be the author of your own life. -- Tom Shadyac
Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided. -- Lauren Myracle
Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author. -- Neil Gaiman
To be authentic literally means to be your own author. -- Dan Millman
I would very much like to become a best-selling author. -- Manuel Puig
The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient. -- Guy Kawasaki
The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature. -- Samuel Johnson
Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college. -- E. B. White
In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work. -- Larry Niven
An author's first duty is to let down his country. -- Brendan Behan
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author. -- Samuel Johnson
Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research. -- Walter Moers
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. -- Jeanne Moreau
Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me -- Confucius
I realized than an author cannot also be a producer. -- Sergio Leone
An author's characters do what he wants them to do. -- W. E. B. Griffin
No author is a man of genius to his publisher. -- Heinrich Heine
I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity. -- Kadir Nelson
It requires more than mere genius to be an author. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Nature is a volume of which God is the author. -- William Harvey
It takes courage to be the author of your life. -- Nicholas Lore
Who learns most from a good book is the author. -- Jose Bergamin
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless. -- Blaise Pascal
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.... -- Joseph Joubert
The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast -- Rachel Caine
There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published. -- J. A. Konrath

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