408 Author Quotes for You to Enjoy

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Solitude Creation Only Importance Himself Author Child Produced

President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts. John Doolittle

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. John Grisham

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I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author. John Hodgman

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Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. John M. Ford

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Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be understood as real people, who actually lived in history. John Shelby Spong

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. John Updike

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The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary. John Updike

First Met Joyce Author Socially

If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you and say, 'Dear Mr. Scieszka, we were supposed to write to our favorite author, but Roald Dahl is dead. So I'm writing to you.' Jon Scieszka

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

Experiment Kind Well Reader Author Novels

You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel where you feel like the author is talking to the reader over the characters' heads is in a bad place. Jonathan Dee

Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world. Jonathan Galassi

Best Book World Amazing Everything Telling Except Make His Itself Author Getting Different Hold Working Her Publishing

I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me. Jonathan Maberry

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The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read. Jorge Amado

Best Language Read Always Author Translations

On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author's existence beyond the limits he envisioned, or provides a living author with a future he cannot measure. In other words, this business deals with the future which we all prefer to regard as unending. Joseph Brodsky

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Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing. Julie Kagawa

It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use of the Book of Chronicles has to tell about the tabernacle. Julius Wellhausen

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

Dictatorship Like Always Author Person Being Speaking

You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world that readers can enter. It's especially so, I think, for writers of historical fiction. Justin Cartwright

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I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium. Kanika Dhillon

Whatever Medium Writer Always Author Screenwriter Aspired

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