2,152 Quotes About Author

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

It is Scholastic's and author J.K. Rowling's wish that all readers, especially children, have the opportunity to experience

An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

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'?

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.