During freedom struggle, It were authors and artists who made the Nation stand with their pen, and now their pen can create an environment of renaissance when Independent India is on the path of Good Governance.
I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.
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.
I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance. . . the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography.
Most authors steal their works, or buy.
People should be interested in books, not their authors.
In a very real sense, we are the authors of our own lives.
I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf
I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.
The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.
When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make it. That research has gone into it and we say "This is a history of the civil war, this is a biography of Lincoln" whatever. But you don't make any such supposition when you say "This is a historical novel. "
Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.
Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.
Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.
History is sympathetic 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To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me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.
I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors who count take responsibility for a map which is addressed to travellers of the earth, the world, and the spirit. Each issue is composed as a map of this land and this glory, images of our cities and of our politics must join our poetry. I want a nation in which discourse is active and scholarship is understood as it should be, the mode of our understanding and the ground of our derivations. -Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967)
Of 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.