Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?
- Mitch Albom
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
- Nicholas Sparks
I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary club I belong to a municipal council. Instead of drinking and discussing authors and reviews, I sit on committees with capable practical greengrocers and bootmakers... Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
- George Bernard Shaw
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
- Daniel Dennett
November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
- Anita Diament
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
- Elizabeth I
The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
- Frederick Forsyth
Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.
- Dorothy Parker
The most satisfying compliment a reader can pay is to tell me that he or she feels personally addressed. Think of your own favorite authors and see if that isn't precisely one of the things that engage you, often at first without your noticing it. A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull or obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful.
- Christopher Hitchens
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
- Judy Holliday
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read people whose work is in the same vein as yours and those whose genre is totally different. You've heard of chain-smokers. Writers, especially beginners, need to be chain-readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night.
- Khaled Hosseini
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
- Tim O Reilly
A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.
- George Dennison Prentice
Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
- R A Salvatore
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
- Gloria Stuart
- Mitch Albom
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
- Nicholas Sparks
I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary club I belong to a municipal council. Instead of drinking and discussing authors and reviews, I sit on committees with capable practical greengrocers and bootmakers... Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
- George Bernard Shaw
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
- Daniel Dennett
November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
- Anita Diament
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
- Elizabeth I
The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
- Frederick Forsyth
Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.
- Dorothy Parker
The most satisfying compliment a reader can pay is to tell me that he or she feels personally addressed. Think of your own favorite authors and see if that isn't precisely one of the things that engage you, often at first without your noticing it. A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull or obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful.
- Christopher Hitchens
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
- Judy Holliday
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read people whose work is in the same vein as yours and those whose genre is totally different. You've heard of chain-smokers. Writers, especially beginners, need to be chain-readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night.
- Khaled Hosseini
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
- Tim O Reilly
A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.
- George Dennison Prentice
Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
- R A Salvatore
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
- Gloria Stuart
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