933 Quotes About Authors

If your book is not autobiographical, then you are just not paying attention to your own life.

La poesía chilena, dijo Bibiano aquella noche, va a cambiar el día que leamos correctamente a Enrique Lihn, no antes.

Los buenos escritores necesitan a los malos escritores aunque sólo sea como lectores o como escuderos.

That's really what all books are, isn't it? I mean, lists of secrets and things you only wish you’d done - a sort of deathbed confession where you're trying to get it all out while the lights are still on.

A writer who doesn't write is just not right.

Alfonse gave her his words, a mad jumble that didn't sound as lovely coming from his mouth as it would have flying out of the tips of his fingers.

The dictionary is the ONLY place where success comes before work. To hell with the detractors. Keep writing, reading, dreaming, succeeding, etcetera.

The wonderful thing about writers like [James] Baldwin is the way we read them and come across passages that are so arresting we become breathless and have to raise our eyes from the page to keep from being spirited away.

Everywhere you look in the literary cosmos, the great ones are busy loving and hating.