408 Author Quotes for You to Enjoy

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. Logan Pearsall Smith

Every Madman Vanity Outrageous Like Most However His Author Cell Modest Padded Chained Keeps

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well. Lorde

Good Great Book Words Herself Kid Out Would Carver Raymond Over Like Well Read Always How Sound Am Loud Author Room Really Page Who Her

I was a latecomer to romance, although I did read gothics. My father used to work for the 'Fort Worth Star-Telegram,' and their book reviewer, author Leonard Sanders, would pass on the gothics for my dad to give to me since Leonard didn't review gothics. I gobbled up books by Mary Stewart, Madeleine Brent, Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney. Lori Wilde

Work Me Book Worth Father Books Would Give Mary Since Read Although Pass Review Reviewer Up Author Did Romance Victoria Fort Used Whitney Dad

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him. Luigi Pirandello

Words Before Nothing Action Alive Latter Characters Follow Him Does Author Situations Which Them Really Suggest

I think authors like me are always struggling with the idea that they should have a brand and a Facebook author page and they should get Twitter accounts. I don't know what to do with them. Lynn Coady

Me Facebook Think Twitter Struggling Idea Like Know Always Brand Accounts Author Get Authors Them Should Page

The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them. Lynn Coady

Best You Sometimes Important Awesome Other One Thing About More Dirt Writers Supposed Talk Because Always Author Get Done Famous The One Thing Stories Little Them Thing

Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller. M. J. Rose

Time Other Type Thriller Thrillers Like Wrote She Vera Female Male Author Any Psycho Specialty Specific Her

As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat. M. J. Rose

You Book Power Embrace Truly Author Create Choice Yours

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave. M. J. Rose

Me Book Looking Down Consider Eye At Least One Some Someone Take He He Or She Look She Always Least His Cave Up Author Afterwards Turn Ask Reason Who Workshop Her

John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style. Madison Smartt Bell

Music Crazy Guitar Thought Style Thirty Imitative Teens Possibly Introverted John Some More Lifetime Hour His Than Author Banjo Listened Which Little Produced Twenties Even Albums

I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same. Maggie Stiefvater

Love Me Emotions Focus Subconscious Pluck Edges Reader How Affect Author Same Movie Meant Viewer Elements Aware Things Filmmakers

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

Become Would Like Very Author Much

People are used to streaming and binge-watching. When they see an author they like, if there's only one book, even if they like the book, they're going to forget about you. The way to keep you in their mind and to get you to become a habit for these readers is you have to have a lot of product out there for them to read. Marcia Clark

You Book People Mind Become Way One Book Out See About Only Habit Like Read Readers Lot Author Forget Get Going Them Product Used Even Keep Streaming

I like female characters that are strong in their own right and not because the author said so. Marcus Sakey

Strong Own Characters Like Because Female Said Female Characters Author Right

In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out. Margaret Weis

The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films. Marvin Ammori

Life Work Death Long Films Too Corporate Books Plus More Could Share Merely Powerful Terms Limits Years Encourage Author Personal Authorship After Either Length Far Speakers Who Last Copyright Speeches

Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss. Mary Pilon

History Book Confused Sometimes Abyss Research Live Books Geeky Bottom Footprint Joyful Particularly Nonfiction Text End History Books Offer Author Often Tiny Forgotten Size Page Fascinating Even Lump

When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing. Mary Steenburgen

Good Journey You Book World Mind Think Books Kind Good Thing Read Go Author Create Really Your Whole Thing

For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die. Matt Mullenweg

Me You Smart Build Software Back Adopt Individual Individual Person Developer Always Dumb Author Person Die Then Organisations Designer Core

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. Max Frisch

Language Horse Between Dealer Understand Author Difference

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two. Mel Torme

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