Having just read the admirable profile of Hemingway in the New Yorker, I realize that I am much too clean to be a genius, much too sober to be a champ, and far, far, too clumsy with a shotgun to live the good life.
Authors Quotes
An author whose name is known everywhere, and whose reputation is commensurate with the boundaries of his country, if it does not transcend them, shall have the income, say, of a rising young physician, known to a few people in a subordinate city. In view of this fact, so humiliating to an author in the […]
The best time for planning a book is while you are doing dishes.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author’s soul.
If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to “ask” questions. If I had answers I’d be a politician.
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
I wonder whether Salman Rushdie would have written “The Satanic Verses” if he had been born as handsome as Imran Khan.
It is scarcely possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from.
Posterity is that which is denied an author until he is in the public domain.
