The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.
I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.
There are many readers of the book, who don't know anything about the authors and the artists. There is more than one author. It doesn't matter, if you can't make the reader dive into the story and surround him with that environment and those characters. That's an experience that lasts longer than figuring out who did what. I think that's what makes our working relationship better, it helps us to make a book that feels unique and not like different voices.
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.
For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.
The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.
Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.
It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.
More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.
Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.
If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are pointing out the only thing a story is about you are very probably wrong - even if you're the author.
As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven't heard of some of them.
I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.
I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.