Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang, Diego Osorno, Cristóbal Peña, Gabriela Wiener, Leila Guerriero, Cristian Alarcón, among others. These are writers doing important, groundbreaking work. So the talent is there, as is the habit of radio listenership, and what we propose to do is unite the two. We want to have these immensely gifted journalists - men and women who've already revitalized the long-form narrative - we want them to tell their stories in sound.
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can’t possibly get to these and do what they do best.
This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the most learned and cultured poets, authors, musicians, and architects of the time - relying solely on his remarkable memory during conversations with them.
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt.
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
It used to be fashionable for authors to have their pictures taken with dogs, but the dogs always looked like models hired from an advertising agency, and probably were.
Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.
I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author. "
There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
Like most authors, I also love to read.