933 Quotes About Authors

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack

Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt, narcissistic, silly, and generally unpleasant people. He tries to avoid the ones who've written books he loves for fear that they will ruin their books for him.

I… realized that the revelation of my husband’s betrayal did not leave me feeling the despair of a wife with a broken heart: I was feeling the rage of a writer with a broken plot.

Then she wants to say that, oh, Christ, of course she knows, the condescension Europeans shower on Americans is not always warranted; she's a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one-woman card catalogue for useless knowledge.

Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.

I’m a dot in the grand scheme of things. I don’t matter, not even to the other dots.

Writing history is like holding a conversation across the ages, responding to people long gone and posing questions to individuals yet born.

Aku selalu larut pada keindahanmu, tidak cukup bagiku hanya menguntai kata perihal dirimu, pesonamu bak gemintang yang memberi kesejukan, gemulaimu bak rembulan yang selalu bersinar tatkala gelap bermunculan.

Sebagaimana senja senantiasa menyapa manusia, sebagaimana gemintang senantiasa menemani rembulan. Sebagaimana puisi yang berkasih sayang. Begitupula aku yang merangkulmu, pada cinta untuk kembali pulang.