Quotes About Authors

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

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I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.

Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

Authors do not supply imaginations.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer got into a fistfight.

In this Postscript I distinguish references back to the revised text of this book by placing these in italics thus (262), from references to the works of other authors under discussion, which are thus (p. 162). account

Critics always praise precision in writing, and some great writers (Joyce, Beckett, Gustave Flaubert) are masters of clarity—but one of the great (and seldom mentioned) resources of fiction is vagueness.

Other writers, especially the ones you admire, can steer you to good books.