Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.
Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.
With Crucible, any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.
Writing is a vessel. . . with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
Cunning authors cut to be quoted.
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction.
Time is the author of authors.
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. . . . (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. . . . Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. . . . Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.
It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J. D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.
Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!