Quotes About Author

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself- it is the occurring which is difficult.

The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

Greater Albania?!, this is a mockery of an unprecedented cynicism.

Murray said, "Is this Heaven?" The Voice said, "This is no place as you understand place." Murray was embarrassed, but the next question had to be asked. "Pardon me if I sound like a jackass. Are you God?

I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders of the world.

My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going . . . whatever cargoes of words I could lay my hands on I gave safe harbor.

They were all there.And all of them,these days,were as if drunk with bitterness,from desire for vengeance and longed to punish and to kill whomsoever they could,since they could not punish or kill those whom they wished.

What are those purple things?" "Carrots." "Carrots are orange." "And purple." He didn't mention the turnips and cauliflower in the mix. He knew his quarry. "Why would somebody dye a harmless carrot purple?" "They're not dyed, they're natural. Have some more wine," he said, topping off her glass, "and try them out.

And although the evil had been taken out, its infection was beyond deadly and the harm was done.

I had read the book 1421—The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies and become intrigued by his perspective on the era. Menzies, of course

I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.

Doesn't matter what planet they come from, men are so freaking dense.

That settled it. We were definitely at the stoned part of the conversation.

Yeah, I was asleep, but it's okay. I was having my favorite dream. I have it all the time. I was dancing. I was beautiful. I was dancing.

What brings you onto my property? Rhev said, cradling his mug with both hands trying to absorb its warmth. Got a problem I can't fix your personality, sorry

She'd gotten through the entire evening without killing anyone. Lieutenant Eve Dallas, cop to the bone, figured the restraint showed enormous strength of character.

The doll, Dallas. You know, Barbie doll. Jeez, didn't you ever have dollies? Dolls are like small dead people. I have enough dead people, thanks.