519 quotes found
“Forget the fictional characters how many authors are being stopped on the street?”
“Seriously, when you see a new book fresh on the stand and in big letters it says A Million Copies Sold, did you ever wonder who bought them?”
“A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.”
“For every minute that a book entertains you, the author of that book invested several minutes of their lives. Please show your appreciation by taking a minute out of your life to leave us a review....”
“The public has an exalted view of authors, and rightly so. Great writers impact deeply on our imagination. And yet, behind the kudos, there sometimes lurks a person at odds with the nobility of the...”
“Imagination must be allowed to run free in our subconscious mind and when ready, it reveals its ideals to us in our conscious state.”
“Im contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?”
“Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on ...”
“I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.”
“If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-for...”
“To say that Agatha Christies characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.”
“I am reading Henry James and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.”
“Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.”
“Discovered Pages has released its first monthly magazine and it is being raved about!! We have author spotlights, great info for authors and readers, publishing info etc etc. Get your copy today on...”
“Love and respect are above any law”
“I believe that everyone has a story to tell. The problem that is inherent to most aspiring authors is that they struggle with getting the story from their head to the page.”
“In the timeless and universal manner of authors conversing in public places, he did not fail to mention its title, Volume III of Principia Mathematica entitled, The System of the World, available s...”
“Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”
“In Australia the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. I just didnt expect to end up with the chicken.”
