A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Authors and readers have a symbiotic relationship. An author builds roads of thoughts, imaginations, and ideas. Readers walk those roads to find the beauties of life.”
“Authors and their characters have a unique relationship. The characters learn and grow, but then they start guiding the authors on their own.”
“Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.”
“Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so”
Source: The Bell in the Fog: And Other Stories
“Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.”
Source: The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree
“Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.”
“Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.”
Source: America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s
“Authors are our bridges to new worlds,
awakening the unconscious to dream anew,
casting spells upon passive minds to take action
and guiding choices toward destinies unraveled.”
Source: Capsized: The Pandemic Lockdown
“Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life
“Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens”
“Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.”
Source: The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works
“Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.”
“Authors can alter your life.”
“Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.”
“Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
Source: Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile
“Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.”
“Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.”
Source: Selections from the Essays
“Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.”
“Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it”
“Authors do not supply imaginations.”
“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”
Source: Confessions of a Young Novelist
“Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.”
“Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.”
Source: The spectator
“Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.”
“Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.”
“Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.”
“Authors in general don’t have a lot of money, and lawsuits are expensive.”
“Authors in this anthology who are working on behalf of social justice immerse themselves in the horrors of oppression—they know what is going on, help those who are suffering, and inform the larger community. For the women whose essays are included in this anthology, immersion in the ugliness
of injustice, in the hope of change, seems preferable to turning away. . . . there is a reward for courage and determination in the face of helplessness and suffering: Walking into pain in the hope of bringing change moves a person from helplessness and despair to empowered activism.”
Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice
“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
“Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.”
“Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.”
“Authors, now is the time to get your message, your story, your book into the hands of readers around the world
BookasaBusiness.com”
Source: On Toby's Terms:
“Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.”
Source: Many long years ago
“Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.”
Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
“Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we can use blogs to express specific criticisms of published articles and to use social media to disseminate these criticisms.”
“Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.”
“Authors quote: No one should ever have to live in agony, wondering if someone loves them in return, action always speaks louder than anyone's mere words of affection.”
Source: The Golden Treasure
“Authors should be as involved with the marketing of their books as they want to be. No more, no less. I happen to recognized, quite early on, that no one was going to buy my book if I didn't do everything I could to let them know that the book existed.”
“Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and craft of writing, have reminded me that it is the commitment to the craft that matters the most; the longing to get better and the countless hours of work that go into writing and rewriting. To them I am eternally grateful.”
“Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.”
“Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.”
“Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.”
Source: Mrs. McGinty's Dead
“Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.”
Source: Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship
“Authors, why sell books one at a time when you can sell them by the set, boxload or trunkload.
Charmaine Hammond
.bookasabusiness.com”
“Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”
Source: The Da Vinci Code
“Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton
“Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.”
Source: The Uncommon Reader
“Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“Authorship is the act of creating the idea.
Entrepreneurship is the act of carrying the idea into the world.
Authorship = Spiritual
Entrepreneurship = Physical”
“Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.”