Quotes About Author

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

No book or magazine article is for "everyone" so know your audience, then target them with your writing.

Hook your editor with a strong opening sentence to bring attention to your writing.

From my 25+ years in publishing, I've observed that selling books does not occur without the author taking action.

Book buying studies have proven a reader has to hear about your book multiple times before they reach into their wallet and purchase a book. The number of exposures to your book is somewhere between six and twelve times before you collect a sale. A key part of your platform building process as an author is to give readers multiple exposures to your book and the availability.

Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.

To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep.

Times are too dangerous for me to encourage men to risks I am not prepared to share or approve.

such are the topsy-turvydoms of faery glamour—in a cockleshell.

Some mediæval straw-splitting about the nature of the Trinity, which is only useful to-day to show how many things are unimportant to us, which once shook the world

Come my flocks, my flower. I have some very definite pear-shaped ideas I'd like to discuss with thee.

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

If there ever was a man of whom it could be said that he 'hungered and thirsted after righteousness,' it was Kafka.

Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?

It is jolly to be regarded as a wicked, libidinous youth by an aged maiden Aunt.

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear.

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.

The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.

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The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.