Author Quotes

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

I'm very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

Call me the author.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.

An author departs, he does not die.

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

I became a children's author by accident.

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.