Quotes about authors
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Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects. Edward M. Lerner
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We are the authors of our own disasters
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This program will help users discover more books, publishers sell more books and authors to ultimately write more books. Adam Smith
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I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.' Laurie Halse Anderson
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The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose. Michael A. Stackpole
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When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay. Lois Lowry
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'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.' Paul Weller
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I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever. Amity Shlaes
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I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time. Amish Tripathi
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It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act. George MacDonald Fraser
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I'm especially interested in projects from authors who were always wonderful writers but who got stuck in the midlist mire due to the challenges of traditional publishing. Teresa Medeiros
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When a group of ultra-opinionated, uber-creative romance authors get together, I'm sure you guys can imagine how fast the ideas start flying!
authors send
There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.'
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We are making efficiencies and moving to newer authors but established authors are still great cash generators. Marjorie Scardino
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Authors worry. We worry about writing. Worry about our editors, our agents, our reviews, and our readers. We worry about everything, including all forms of social media including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and personal websites.
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Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market their stories in compelling ways, will succeed. Daniel Suarez
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Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.
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As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes a matter of identifying the shadowy figure in the back row of the mental photograph, or of grabbing at the tail of a memory that's just slipping out the window into thin air. Virginia Euwer Wolff
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Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.
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I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day. Lisa McMann
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There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience. Richard K. Morgan
authors good time
Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.
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Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction. Emma McLaughlin
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I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else. Geraldine McCaughrean
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests. Benjamin Rush
authors beloved both people sample stay touch
People have told us it's a way to both sample new authors and stay in touch with beloved authors between books.
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'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.
authors requires standing
Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
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I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
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I think authors like me are always struggling with the idea that they should have a brand and a Facebook author page and they should get Twitter accounts. I don't know what to do with them. Lynn Coady
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I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect. Rebecca Stead
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It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.' Jesmyn Ward