408 Author Quotes for You to Enjoy

It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go. W. Bruce Cameron

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

Remember Long Author Wanted

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise. Wayne Rogers

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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! William Makepeace Thackeray

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I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development. Winona LaDuke

Training Journalist Community Active Development Economist Well Author Being

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know. Tawni O'Dell

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Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things. Bill Gates

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There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are Christian symbols in the series, but the author misappropriates them, mutates them, and integrates them into a supposedly larger and broader system where evil symbols are dominant. Michael O'Brien

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not. Tawni O'Dell

Woman Considered Like Author Whether Novelist Serious

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things. Douglas Coupland

You People Google Worry Photos About More More People Factual Instantly Almost Highly Most Subjective Author Person Get Any Just Anyone Public Realm Why Publishers Things

I can tell you from experience that God's help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value. Joyce Meyer

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire. Andrew O'Hagan

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross. Peter O'Toole

Rest Three Only Indispensable Audience Author Actor Things

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. Salman Rushdie

You Find Sure Go His Author Get Meaning Yours

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