408 Author Quotes for You to Enjoy

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean. Terry Pratchett

You Book Gone See Somehow Something Point Writes Wrong Author Again Mean Then

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'? Terry Pratchett

Family Thoughts You Mother Unhappy Own About Contains Most Terrible Terrible Thing Said Off Author Being Famous Lady Your Standing Who Novelists Switch Mill Thing Funeral Innermost

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance. Terry Teachout

People Complicated Will Other Unless Directed Performance Performed Leads Involved Until Author Process Acted Many Play Deeply Designed

I'm not rigid about directorial changes: I judge them on a case-by-case basis. In the case of a play whose text is widely familiar, I'm open to drastic changes that may alter the author's meaning, perhaps even considerably. If the results don't work, then I say so. Terry Teachout

Work Judge Changes Considerably Drastic Say Rigid About Case Results Open Perhaps Alter Text Familiar Author May Them Meaning Then Even Whose Play Widely Basis

Since my romance novels had all been thrillers as well, it wasn't such a leap for me to move into the straight thriller genre. The most difficult part, I think, was being accepted as a thriller writer. Once you've written romance, unfortunately, critics will never stop calling you a 'former romance author.' Tess Gerritsen

Me You Will Difficult Think Once Critics Thriller Thrillers Writer Never Had Part Written Never Stop Since Most Leap Well Genre Calling Accepted Been Author Move Stop Romance Being Unfortunately Former Straight Novels

I shall be but a shrimp of an author. Thomas Gray

Shall Author Shrimp

When it comes to the form the narrative will take, whether first person, third person, or Aunt Grace's cat, I usually find that the story tells me which voice it prefers, and that often changes as I go along. And in the end it really doesn't matter as long as the author can rig those voices all in harness to pull the same load. Thomas Steinbeck

Me Grace Matter Will Long First Changes Harness Those Tells Find Voice Voices Take Cat Along Narrative First-Person Go Aunt End Author Person Same Often Form In The End Story Whether Which Really Rig Load Third Pull

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Corner Minds Phrases Taken Merely Pass Passages Test His Author Current Younger Newspapers Root Really Found Number

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination. Tim Cope

Me Big Imagination Meeting Summit Impact Had Tim His Big Impact Australian Author Ascent Sea Captured Everest

'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence. Tim Crouch

Art Creation Attack Practices Author Subtly Certain Satirical Mediation Violence

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me. Tom Stoppard

The YA author community is generally pretty friendly, and they care. Tomi Adeyemi

Care Community Pretty Generally Ya Friendly Author

Usually, an author writes a manuscript that is handed in to the editor. The editor will then work with an art director to find just the right illustrator for the job, and off they go. Many times, the illustrator and author never meet. Tony DiTerlizzi

Pearl Buck was my mother's favorite author. Valerie Harper

Mother Favorite Buck Author Pearl

I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief. Veronica Roth

I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels. Victor LaValle

As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author. Victoria Hanley

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If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.' Vikram Seth

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me. Vin Scully

Me Business Military Philosopher Guru General Only Author

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. Vladimir Nabokov

Genius Speak Think Distinguished Write Like Author Child

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