2,152 Quotes About Author

Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.

Each time you turn your life issues over to God and allow Him to lead, you build trust in Him.

Away I turned, from the ghosts that brought me to this place. From an insatiable desperation to be wanted and my urge to fill the emptiness inside.

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn't really want to win. They wanted to test their wits against the author at full pitch, and they wanted to lose. To be dazzled.

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.