933 Quotes About Authors

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

Writers come in two principal categories -- those who are overtly insecure and those who are covertly insecure.

Readers make writers and writers make readers

Authors write books. Readers write authors.

Olivia's heart pittered. A blank page. A pen in hand. Was there anything as exciting? The endless possibilities, the potential for beauty, even genius, waiting for that breath of life.

Any book represents effort, struggle, work--I know, I write them myself--every book deserves attention, even if that ends with dismissal.

Art should stimulate the mind and soul

Writing is architectural. Letters become words, and words become sentences, and sentences become paragraphs, and paragraphs become chapters and chapters become books.

Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.