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As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. -- Stephen Kinzer
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. -- Edith Wharton
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements. -- Aberjhani
It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors. -- Ismail Kadare
Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck. -- Frederik Pohl
In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers. -- Richard Stallman
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles. -- Sloane Crosley
I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we're drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author. -- Sharon Kay Penman
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else. -- V. S. Pritchett
All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external. -- Will Advise
It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers. -- Cleveland Amory

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