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True Devdas are Authors -- Santosh Avvannavar
Authors do not supply imaginations... -- Nella Larsen
Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts. -- Dan Brown
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old. -- Alexander Pope
Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide. -- P. D. James
Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine. -- Vachel Lindsay
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us. -- Richard Denney
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. -- Paul Eldridge
Authors in general don't have a lot of money, and lawsuits are expensive. -- James D. Macdonald
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters. -- Bergen Evans
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. -- Samuel Johnson
Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much. -- Dorothy Parker
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too? -- Alexander Pope
Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it -- Nella Larsen
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens -- Malcolm Cowley
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens. -- Malcolm Cowley
Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome. -- Christopher Hitchens
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. -- Mickey Spillane
Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations. -- Agatha Christie
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. -- Robertson Davies
All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external. -- Will Advise
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere. -- Don Roff
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them." -- Anthony Horowitz
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them. -- Anthony Horowitz
Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living. -- David Hewson
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another. -- Walter Savage Landor
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects. -- Edward M. Lerner
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people. -- Henry Williamson
Only mothers will ever know the true struggle and sacrifice it takes to create life. Authors come in at a close second. -- R.P. Falconer
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people. -- Henry Williamson
Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did... And he did it in the 50s! -- Yony Leyser
Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings. -- Liz Williams
There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing. -- T. R. Pearson
Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book. -- Robert Barr
The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen. -- William Golding
Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said -- Umberto Eco
Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne. -- Michel de Montaigne
There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind. -- Wilbur Smith
Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue. -- Paul Fry
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren. -- Thomas Carlyle
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown. -- Zig Ziglar
The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics. -- Richard Curtis
I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. -- Mickey Spillane
Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets. -- Alistair Cooke
Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all. -- Janae Mitchell
Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come. -- Ellen Hopkins
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer. -- Joseph Addison
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel. -- Joseph Addison
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else. -- Ogden Nash
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write. -- Maxim Gorky
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. -- George Orwell
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. -- J. K. Rowling
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. -- Cole Porter
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. -- Athenaeus
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. -- Elizabeth I
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles. -- R. L. Stine
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. -- Andre Gide
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read. -- Sinclair Lewis
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly. -- Conor Oberst
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for. -- Jeff Kinney
Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me! -- Stephen Colbert
The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America. -- John McCain
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. -- Francis Bacon
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind. -- Nicholas Sparks
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. -- David Brin
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties. -- Leslie Jamison
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. -- Walt Whitman
Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public. -- Gavyn Davies
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable. -- Jane Smiley
I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts. -- Steve Harvey
All great authors are seers. -- George Henry Lewes
Time is the author of authors. -- Francis Bacon
Cunning authors cut to be quoted. -- Willis Regier
The authors of all our misfortune. -- Jefferson Davis
History is sympathetic to its authors. -- John McAfee
Most authors steal their works, or buy. -- Alexander Pope
But authors before they write should read. -- Fanny Burney
My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens. -- Kevin McCloud
It's that drama that drives authors, you know. -- Julie Kenner
I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors. -- H. L. Mencken
The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. -- John F. Kennedy
All authors to their own defects are blind. -- John Dryden
Like most authors, I also love to read. -- Aprilynne Pike
The great authors share their souls with us- "literally. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
People should be interested in books, not their authors. -- Agatha Christie
The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson. -- Paloma Faith
Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts. -- Jeffrey Robinson
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors -- Samuel Johnson
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food. -- Joseph Joubert
View other authors as your allies rather than your competition -- Shannon Love
We must be authors of the history of our age. -- Madeleine Albright
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research. -- Walter Moers
Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors. -- Dan Brown
We need to be the authors of our own life. -- Peter Senge
We are the authors of the stories our soul unfolds. -- Jodi Livon
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. -- Samuel Johnson
A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor. -- Eric Bentley
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. -- Michel de Montaigne
The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up. -- James Boswell
Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent. -- Joseph Joubert
All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth. -- Michel de Montaigne
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. -- Milan Kundera
There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them. -- Jeanne Calment
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. -- Saint Augustine
The authors of great evils know best how to remove them. -- Plutarch
This book had two authors, and they were both the same person. -- Terry Pratchett
I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury. -- William Shatner
Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers). -- Guy Kawasaki
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper. -- Mike Greenberg

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