Top Author Quotes
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Stephen King
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
Louis Leakey
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.
James Schuyler
Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
Lloyd Alexander 
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Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
John M. Ford
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
Robert Benchley
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I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.
Paul Kane
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. Milne
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Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
Lion Feuchtwanger
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The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.
Robert Duvall
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