519 quotes found
“Writing to please all readers is like cooking without seasoning …”
“Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?”
“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...”
“[The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....”
“That's a good point," Professor Hirota said. "But there is one thing we ought to keep in mind in the study of man. Namely, that a human being placed in particular circumstances has the ability and ...”
“And you out there: Aren’t you somehow right here with me?”
“Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors.”
“Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.”
“As an author the question I get asked the most is, “why do you write?” My knee jerk response is, “Because I love it,” which is true, but not the whole truth. So here is my revised response to that ...”
“I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?”
“To say that Agatha Christie’s 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.”
“Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.”
“I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.”
“Author? Author? Did you write these legs?''Yes."'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.”
“Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.”
“Of all the advantages that ghostwriting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity that you get to meet people of interest.”
“...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.”
“I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story ...”
