I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
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. "
In a very real sense, we are the authors of our own lives.
There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names to characters in their novels. False modesty, faugh!
There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.
I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of the authors who really blew my mind open to all sorts of weird dark and twisted places.
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)
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.
While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.
It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which is what makes the books so amusing. In matter-of-fact, authoritative tones, the authors tell us how plants and human beings exchange energy - or they describe what angels look like, whether or how they're sexed, how they communicate with human beings, and how they differ from ghosts. Readers might be expected to wonder, How do they know?
The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
But authors before they write should read.
My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.
The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.
Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen KingThe Stand (and really most of his books); Anne RiceThe Witching Hour; and Pat ConroyThe Prince of Tides. These authors write my favorite kind of book - epic feel, gorgeous prose, unique characters, and a pace that keeps you turning the pages. From them, I learned a lot about characterization, pacing, prose, voice, and originality.