933 Quotes About Authors

People have told us it's a way to both sample new authors and stay in touch with beloved authors between books.

New Journalism was such the rage with authors like Tom Wolfe and John McPhee. All I kept hearing was that non-fiction was so much more interesting than the novels being written at that time.

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?

The dynamics are such that this is going to happen. The sharpest authors will do the sharpest deals.

The authors didn't tie this increase to the plants, nor do we. Our concern is with the uncertainty of what's happening where; this kind of stuff can't be taken off the table.

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades.

Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?