I only read the reviews of my films if they`re amusing. Six books have been written about me but I`ve only met two of the authors. They get my name and birthplace wrong in the first paragraph. From there it`s all downhill.
- Robert MitchumA study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: `Duh.`
- Conan O'BrienLevi is one of the best authors I`ve ever read. It`s hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.
- John TurturroI enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
- William ShatnerGood authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
- Cole PorterMy job is to put out the most conservative estimate and we`re hoping to raise somewhere between $40,000 and $50,000 between the 16 authors.
- David GreeneMy job is to put out the most conservative estimate and we`re hoping to raise somewhere between $40,000 (22,100 pounds) and $50,000 between the 16 authors,
- David GreeneI have a private press. I`m a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
- Gloria StuartNobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
- Judy HollidayThis is a plain and brazen violation of copyright law. It`s not up to Google or anyone other than the authors, the rightful owners of these copyrights, to decide whether and how their works will be copied.
- Nick TaylorIt is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill...I studied English Literature. I wasn`t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.
- Christopher NolanAuthors change publishers because it`s like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.
- Jackie CollinsThe first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I`m going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.
- John McCainThe key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors` Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.
- Richard CurtisAuthors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
- Mickey SpillaneBy reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it`s possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.
- Nicholas SparksFocus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
- Nicholas SparksWe had to be diplomatic and discreet, for the protection of the authors.
- Marshall BrickmanThe world is crawling with authors touring now. They`re like performance artists.
- Kazuo IshiguroI don`t think it`s any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.
- Kazuo IshiguroI think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
- Laura HillenbrandThe obvious issue that we and others, no doubt including the present authors, will wish to establish is what are the selective advantages of the mutations that are seen,
- Peter AndrewsWhen authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that`s the end. Here`s another who`s never going to write well again.
- Richard RussoSome authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it`s almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.
- Richard RussoPublishers have always had a hard time selling and marketing the single, short-form work. Amazon.com has created a new way for authors to get that kind of work out there, which is incredibly exciting.
- Daniel WallaceI`ve had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don`t know many other authors who can.
- Paul KaneMind you, even in places where I`m much better known, I walk in anonymity, mainly because folks know authors` names, but not their faces.
- Bernard CornwellIn these days of an increasingly powerful music industry, authors` societies represent creators` unique collective bargaining power for securing a fair remuneration for the use of their works anywhere in the world. At the bottom of the value chain, creators are even more vulnerable in the digital age. Authors` societies remain the only safeguard for protecting our rights and accessing the marketplace.
- David FergusonThere`s a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don`t believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
- Dan SimmonsMost books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
- William StyronAuthors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
- Marie von Ebner-EschenbachThe genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
- Walt WhitmanBooksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn`t find anyone to talk to.
- Alain de BottonWinning the Guardian prize is a wonderful reward for any writer. It is such a distinguished award, ... All authors want to know what other authors think of their books and they also like to know what children like, too.
- Jacqueline WilsonIn comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
- Adithep VanabrikshaThe reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
- Adnan DulaimiGod authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.
- Alberto BernalGod will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.
- Alberto BernalMonarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
- Alberto Santos DumontMost modern authors failed to distinguish between two very different phenomena: the production of a new taxon, and the production of a new phenotype.
- Alejandro QueralIt`s the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
- Alex CunninghamHow many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
- Alex GarwoodIn England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
- Alex McCollDr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
- Ali AbduLet us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
- Allen DullesWriting a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn`t all of a sudden make us best selling authors.
- Allen NeuharthComposers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
- Allen NeuharthOf the female black authors, I really like Morrison`s early books a lot. But she`s really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
- Allynne JonesThat statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.
- Alyssa Nelson