AUTHORS QUOTES

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.

I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked our

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself

Time, which is the author of authors.

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear