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Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.
This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
When you write books for a living, you come to realize that while not all people who write to authors are strange, all people who are strange write to authors.
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
Raimon Casellas is the writer (not Raimoun)
Alan Yates the translator
Eva Bosch the editor
Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless,
Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.
The writer provides the text; the reader, the meaning.
Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.
A writer is the conscience of the world.
An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.
Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Amanda Hocking and Hugh Howey have been successful in their self-publishing ventures. But notice that Hocking would prefer to write and hand over the editing, promotion, and selling to a traditional publisher.
HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
But authors before they write should read.
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from, the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.
An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.
An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.
Truly skilled authors create images in your head and emotions in your heart without having ever met you.
Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
Readers are Leaders
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
both were writers of high ambition, with
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.
There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.
D.L Sparks author of All That Glitters.
Writers need readers and readers need writers
Writers write like readers and read like writers.
Writers without readers is like a doctor without patients.
Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.
The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it from the fiber of your own will. From somewhere, you get it. You begin
Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.
Writing is a vessel ... with readers the ocean and authors as its sails ...
An author should leave fingerprints not on the page but on the reader.
Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.
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.
Writers are rememberers.
Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.
Persuaded editors and publishers at a dozen leading
Writers are the dreamers and the keepers of dreams.
If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a part of herself, a creative endeavor she has poured her heart and soul into. Protecting and nurturing that work and the author is part of the job of a publisher.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.
It ain't just about writing on some documents,
author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.
People do write books.
Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.
I also write under T. A. Bradley. Check out my other books under that name!
Everything I publish is for my readers.
A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.
Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.
True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact
Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living.
Writers are archeologists of themselves.
Authors, I would soon learn, sometimes bite when their egos are underfed.
Authors need readers and not followers. Authors need review and not Likes!
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.
One must read all writers twice
the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.
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.
Five people read my work before its ready for publication, and I solicit opinions from all of them: my wife, my agent, my editor, and my parents.
ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS: Be very careful who you give acknowledgement to in your books. Reason: That acknowledgement is in permanent, ink and they are forever associated with you, that book and your name. -Word to the Wi
An author owes a duty to the truth.
Writers are engineers of human souls.
The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.
I am an author! To read me is to know me.
Authors write, readers read, money talks.
Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others 'feel
People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet one.
There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
Most authors steal their works, or buy.
If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?
Margaret Atwood, J.G. Ballard, Ray Bradbury, Jim Crace, Arthur C. Clarke, Russell Hoban, Anna Kavan, Doris Lessing, Cormac McCarthy, Walter M. Miller, Tim O'Brien, Will Self and Marcel Theroux,
The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.
Authors can get an attitude of us-against-them when it comes to publishers, but learning how authors and editors can work together taught me to look at my work in a different way and to make that work as solid as possible before it ever goes to the publisher.
'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.
Readers rule the world
Writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.
AuthorZoom- You do the writing, let us do the rest.
We're authors. We're more than a little unstable.
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.
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!
Authors are directors of the mind. Think about how you would compose a scene. Make it cinematic.
The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
An author has a gift that is leant to others. seek not to teach; - entertain!
Novelists are a special breed. They cannot genuinely trust anything they have not seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands (Salon, 20 February 2009).
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
The public has an exalted view of authors, and rightly so. Great writers impact deeply on our imagination. And yet, behind the kudos, there sometimes lurks a person at odds with the nobility of the author photo or the 'sheer humanity' of the prose style.
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.
Authors," he murmured with a grin. "You all think your work is flawless, and anyone who tries to change a single word is an idiot."
"And editors consider themselves the most intelligent people they know," Amanda shot back.
An author's strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher's commitment to it.
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.
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.
An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.