Author Quotes

God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn’t saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

No matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.

If God is the author of life, there must be a script.