Quotes About Authors

Often I go to book festivals and they just turn authors into celebrities.'

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

We authors certainly don't know what is going to happen to our books. Are they going to disappear into the ether, following music downloads, or are ebooks going to open up a whole new world of readers? And how much are we being paid per copy? We haven't a clue.

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

One of the great things about 'The Cycle' is that we have a wide set of topics - news, culture, music, and sports - and every week, we have several authors of new books on, which often injects literature, history, technology, business, and science into our show as well.

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing.

For every Steven King, there are a dozen guys like me who make a good living. For every David Brin, there are a dozen authors who have managed to make it their day job. For each of them, there are a dozen more for whom writing is a terrific supplement.

I don't care to read about Garrison Keillor. We cover the same sort of territory, and I don't need to know anything more about him.

Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel.

you might want to consider joining the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA.org), the trade group that represents more than 800 music publishers.

Por momentos puede ser maravilloso eso de que todo el mundo escriba porque uno encuentra colegas en todas partes , y por momentos puede resultar pesado, porque cualquier gilipollas iletrado se siente imbuido de todos los defectos y de ninguna de las virtudes de un escritor verdadero. Nicanor Parra lo dijo: tal vez sería conveniente leer un poco más.

Ay, Ulises Lima... Escribía todo el tiempo, es lo que mas recuerdo de el, en los márgenes de los libros que sustraía y en papeles sueltos que solía perder. y nunca escribía poemas, escribía versos que luego, con suerte, ensamblaba en largos poemas extraños... Belano, por el contrario, escribía en cuadernos... Todavía me deben dinero...

Toda escritura es una marranada. Las personas que salen de la nada intentando precisar cualquier cosa que pasa por su cabeza, son unos cerdos. Todos los escritores son unos cerdos. Especialmente los de ahora.