Great literature must spring from the upheaval in the author’s soul. If that upheaval is not present, then it must come from the works of any other author which can be easily adapted.
Authors Quotes
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Then the postman rang, and that day I quit work and ran along the streets, stopping automobiles to tell friends and acquaintances about it – my novel This Side of Paradise was accepted for publication. That week the postman rang and rang, and I paid off my terrible small debts, bought a suit, and woke […]
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.
