Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.
God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.
I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.
As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.
As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.
To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
If you liked a book, don't meet the author
I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the source of music and entertainment, which is our Father.
I feel that people have asked me my age I don't actually think that thirty is particularly young for a first book to come out. And I sometimes wonder if a male author would have been asked this question so frequently.
But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?
Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.
A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.
The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.