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I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story," and then he passes the hat.
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It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.
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The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.
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The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.
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Authors are monkeys who mean
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Should you ever be so lucky as to encounter an author in your life, you should shower her or him with gifts and praise. Sir
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Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read.
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An author owes a duty to the truth.
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I am the best author of my life.
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Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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One hates an author that's all author.
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I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
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Author: A person who's best friends are imaginary,and who's most exciting adventures take place on the written page.
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I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.
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The writer's life is a sacred wonder.
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An author is a writer who didn't give up.
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Veterans and remarkable rookies. International Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW) cofounder, David
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The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.
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Authors can alter your life.
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I ain't no author, man ... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.
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Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.
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A writer is someone who has written something today
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An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.
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The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.
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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
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I also write under T. A. Bradley. Check out my other books under that name!
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Nobody knows he's a writer. It's other people who tell you.
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Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.
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Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.
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The writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.
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A writer is a word trapped in a person.
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Life as an Author is like a roller coaster. You never know how high you will climb, or how fast you'll come down, but it is a wild ride!
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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.
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You know what a publisher is? He's a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he's able to appropriate other people's talents.
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I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.
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I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
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If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.
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The author is not only the one who signs but also a completely unknown person blended with (legendary,] mythical, complex, variable consanguinity.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
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All my books are under J.Z. Murdock (with periods after the initials). Sorry for the confusion.
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comedic playwright.
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An author writes only half the book. The rest is written by readers.
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A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.
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Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.
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The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.
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I think with every writer there are two people there.
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A writer creates many lives, changes lives, and with that lives forever.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're an author.
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The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.
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The fiction writer is, first and foremost, an emotionalist.
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The Noted Activist
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An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.
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I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.
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Authors do not own books, readers do
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Once upon a time, an author created a great story.
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She is the founder and owner of Luft Books, an independent publishing company, and the author of Bias Cut, Lonely
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There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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I am the freest author in the world.
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The writer is more servant than master of his story.
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Jane Austen. Anyway, I'm not
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Authors are sick people.
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For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author ...
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Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors
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Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.
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If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.
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I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.
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Novelists don't have answers and ones that do I'm not sure you should trust.
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Novelist: Telling lies for fun and profit.
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I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.
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The calling of an author is more than just to entertain, but also to share ones experiences with the world.
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Like most authors, I also love to read.
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A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.
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The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
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I'm a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan.
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Time is the author of authors.
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An undaunted author, is the one who will succeed. There is no misfortune, that can dim their optimism.
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United States HarperCollins Publishers Inc. 195 Broadway
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One must read all writers twice
the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.
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Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
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He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.
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I'm an avid biography reader.
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Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.
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Every man is an author - an author of his state.
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A writer's uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader.
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There is bad in all good authors
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Her novels, which I have not yet read, are usually described as the work of a writer's writer, or perhaps of someone who has been to the Institute for the Theory of Literature in Zagreb.
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Claire Fitzpatrick, an Australian content writer who proofread the novel for me. Thanks Claire.
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Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.
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Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.
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I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.
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Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.
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Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.