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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. -- Voltaire
I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think for two seconds about it and realize, this is, like, a toilet bowl reader. -- Augusten Burroughs
I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars. -- Claire Scovell LaZebnik
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. -- John Grisham
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I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.' -- Robert M. Pirsig
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
I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star. -- Rick Riordan
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. -- Debbie Macomber
That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'? -- Terry Pratchett
Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known. -- T. E. Lawrence
Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide. -- Roddy Doyle

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