Authors Quotes

If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism. If you steal from two it’s research.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations.

I’m a commercial writer, not an “author.” Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

An author departs, he does not die.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

I have been an author for 22 years and an ass for 55.