933 Quotes About Authors

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.

The general public doesn't expect romance authors to be Harvard graduates. Which is funny, because there are actually quite a lot of us. But this disconnect means that journalists see me as an interesting story. The tricky part is making sure they understand that there are many, many talented writers who don't have 'fancy' educations.

Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.

It's sort of like an unlimited buffet but you have to limit yourself. What the trade show allows you to do is compress meeting with sales reps and authors into a couple of days.

The single thing the journals can do is make the authors visibly responsible for the work because, in the end, the editors can't be there. Credit and blame go together.

There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.

Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.